INDEX 



Accidents from muzzle-loaders, 42. 



Accidents in rail-shooting, 197. 



A day's sliooting in New Jersey, 106. 



Adventure in New Jersey, 99. 



" A Girl from New Jersey," 98. 



American golden plover, 143-179. 



American gun-makers, 63. 



American ring-plover, 158 ; swan, 306. 



Anas, bernlcU, 804 ; canadensis, 804 ; 



genus, 806 ; boschas, 806 ; obacura, 

 808 ; strepera, 808 ; Americana, 

 809 ; acuta, 810 ; sponsa, 812 ; 

 crecca, 814; discors, 316; clype- 

 ata, 317. 



Ancient and modern hunting, 8. 



Apparatus necessary for breech- 

 loader, 87. 



Appendix, 303. 



Barnegat Bay, 22. 



Bamegat pirates, 117-118. 



Bartram's sandpiper, 152. 



Bass-fishing out West, 261. 



Bathing-party on Jersey coast, 108. 



Batteries, 20 ; description of, 21, 205 ; 

 condemned, 21, 22, 25. 



Bay-birds, 19 ; definition of, 66 ; im- 

 proper modes of purauing, 20 ; bat- 

 teries, 20, 21, 22, 25. 



(See Bay-Snipe.) 



Bay-snipe, shooting, 66, 103, 104 ; none 

 in England, 58 ; what are, 66 ; traits 

 of, 103; sociability of, 108; pecu- 

 liarities of, 136; '* trading," 104; 

 skill required for shooting, 67 ; sport 

 of shooting, 68-106; shooting on the 

 Jersey coast, 106 ; the French gen- 

 tleman's beautiful shot, 69 ; rivalry 

 in shooting, 70 ; number bagged at 

 one shot, 70; flight of; uncertainty 

 as to, 71, 85, 86-87 ; season for sport, 

 71-72 ; flying, mode of, 72 ; flight, 

 line of, 78-86; lead migration of 

 game birds, 18; flight, direction of, 

 73-74; period of incubation, 73; 

 varieties of, 74; sickle-bills, 75; 

 jack-curlew, 76; plover, 109; mar- 

 lin, 76 ; willet, 77 ; golden plover, 

 77-112; black-breast, 77; yel^er, 

 77; yellow-legs, 77; brant -bird, 

 78-182 ; robin-snipe, 78 ; dowitcher, 



78-182 ; krieker, 78-181 ; pursuit of; 

 best mode, 78 ; stools, 79-80 ; t:2-88 ; 

 calls, 79-88-84 ; stands, 79 ; wooden 

 stools best, 81 ; whistling, 84 ; cries 

 of the birds, 84 ; shooting, uncer- 

 tainty of, 85 ; gun to be used for, 

 87-90 ; charge and powder for, 87- 

 ,91 ; how to carry the gun, 87 ; shoot- 

 'ing, dress for, 90; names of; confu- 

 sion as to, 91 ; names of, varieties 

 of, 91 5 names of, scientific, 92-109 ; 

 varieties of; Bartram's sandpiper, 

 110; frost-bird and frost-snipe, 93- 

 118 ; meadow-snipe, 92 ; beach-bird, 

 93 ; fat-bird, 92 ; short-neck, 92 ; 

 pectoral sandpiper, 92 ; horsefoot 

 snipe, 92-182; varieties of, discus- 

 sion about, 109 ; wluch are good 

 eating, 93 ; stringing, how to be 

 done, 94 ; migration of, 94 ; locali- 

 ties for, 94-95, 97; not killed south 

 of Virginia, 95 ; at Quogue, 96 ; 

 sport spoiled by establishment of 

 watering-place, 96 ; at Squan 

 Beach, 97 ; at Bamegat, Egg Har- 

 bor. Brigantlne Beach, 97 ; shooting 

 in New Jersey ,106. 



Beach-bird, 113, 145. 



Beach on Jersey coast, 101. 



Beach-robins, 148. 



Beetle-headed plover, 141. 



Big yellow-legs, 165. 



" Bill," and the names of the plovers, 

 118. 



Bill's ghost stories, 120. 



Bill's house, 116. 



Birds, wounded, what becomes of 

 them, 237. 



Birds, definition of term, 9. 



." game, which are. 10 ; in restau- 

 rants out of season, 15 ; protection 

 of, 10, 13, 14 ; services rendered by, 

 11, 12 ; out of season, 16 ; legal 

 time for killing, 17 ; singing birds, 

 murder of, 13 ; season for killing 

 diff'erent kinds, 17, 18, 19 ; migra- 

 tion of game-bn-ds, 18. 



Black -bellied plover, 112-141. 



Bald-pate duck, 809. 



Black duck, 808. 



Black-head duck, 320. 



