308 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
Bristol, Pennsylvania, known as Livingston’s manor; but 
this was regarded as unusual good fortune, and the experi- 
ment is scarce likely to be rewarded with success. 
This bird has a soft, plaintive call or whistle of two 
notes, which have something of a ventriloquial character, 
and possess this peculiarity, that when uttered close to the 
ear, they appear to come from a distance, and, when the 
bird is really two or three fields distant, sound as if near 
at hand. 
They are found more or less abundantly on Hempstead 
Heath, as it is called, although not a sprig of heather ever 
grew on its bare and grassy surface, and on all the open, 
down-like hills of Long Island. In the neighborhood of 
Newport, Rhode Island, it is very frequent, and perhaps 
in that region, more than elsewhere, is pursued by the 
sportsmen, who visit’ that pleasant watering-place in 
summer. 
It is usually shot from chaises, as the easy, two- 
wheeled gigs of that part of the country are called; and 
there is much art in driving up to them, much more, in- 
deed, than in bringing them down when once within shot. 
The shooter sits in the bottom of the gig, with his left 
leg advanced on the step, ready to spring out and fire the 
instant the chaise stops and the bird rises—the two move- 
ments being simultaneous. 
The driver, as soon as he perceives the bird, which 
looms up large on the bare pasture, drives rapidly round 
him in gradually decreasing circles, keeping his eye stead- 
ily on him, and watching every motion, so as to calculate 
how close he can get before he will be alarmed and take 
