THE FIELD. 
SNIPE-SHOOTING. 
Or the different kinds of field shooting, as opposed to 
river, lake, sea, or forest shooting, I propose to treat in 
reference to the season of the year with which each sport 
commences, beginning with the early spring-time, and con- 
tinuing uptil the commencement of close-time, in those 
States, where any game laws, whatever, prevail; which, 
unfortunately, is the case only in a few of the Atlantic 
States, and in the British Provinces, to a certain ex- 
tent; nor in these even are they, where they exist, ob- 
served as they ought to be, even by those who profess to 
be sportsmen. 
The first species of upland, or rather field game, which 
comes into season in the Northern and Western States—in 
the Southern States it is a winter resident—is the bird 
