INDEX. 



333 



shoveller, 317 ; sea duck, 818 ; can- 

 vas-back, 818 ; red-head, 819; 

 broad-bill, blue-biU, scaup, black- 

 head, raft, 320 ; whistler, goldea eye, 

 great-head, 821 ; butter-ball, buffel- 

 headed, spirit, 822 ; old wife, south- 

 southerly, old squaw, long-tailed, 

 828 ; Merganser, 824 ; shell-drake, 

 goosander weaser, 825. 

 Dusky duck, 308. 



Eating, which birds are best for, 93. 

 England, no bay-snipe nor rail in, 



53. 

 England, trial of breech-loaders In, 



44^7. 

 English guns, German palmed off as, 



30. 

 English guns preferable, 37. 

 English Taw defines game, 7. 

 English snipe, 114; seasons for, 188. 

 English duck, 306. 

 European woodcock, 8. 



Farmer's interest in protecting birds, 

 10. 



Fat-bird, 92-160. 



" Field," the, on breech and muzzle- 

 loaders, 43. 



Field-plover, 152. 



Fight for shooting -stands, 126. 



F^hting, reflections on, 129. 



Filling cartridges, 50. 



Firing gun too close to companion, 

 70. 



Fish, blue, seasons for, 133 ; bony 

 134. 



Fishing at the West, 261. 



Plight of bay-snipe, 78-73, 86 ; direc- 

 tion of, 73. 



Flight of game-birds, led by bay- 

 snipe, 18 ; order of flight, 18. 



Plight of plover, 153. 



Food, which birds are best for, 93. 



Frank Forester on plover, 112. 



French gentleman's beautiful shot, 69. 



Fresh-water ducks, 306. 



Frost-birds and frost-snipe, 92, 113, 

 143, 15T. 



Fute, the, 176. 



PuUgula, genus, 818 ; valisneria, 818 ; 

 ferina, 819 ; mania. 320 ; clan- 

 gula, 821 ; albeola, 822 ; glacialis, 

 323. 



Gadwall, 808. 



Game, definition of in English law, 

 7; protection of, li\ 14-15; piu-- 

 chase of at unseasonable timeSf 15 ; 



at restaurants, 15 ; legal times for 

 killing, 17 ; upland game disap- 

 pearing, improper pursuit of, 20 ; 

 bay-birds not killed as game south 

 of Virginia, 95. 



Game-birds, definition of term, 9, 278. 



Game-laws, 14. 



" Gap," the, 260. 



Geese, game-birds, 10 ; description of 

 vaiieties, 803. 



Genus strepsilas, 148 ; totanus, 163 ; 

 limosa, 168 ; numenius, 173 ; anser, 

 803 ; cygnus, 805 ; anas, 306 ; fuli- 

 gula, 818 ; Mergus, 824. 



German guns, 30 ; duck, 808. 



Ghost stories of Jersey coast, 120. 



Giraud on plover, 112. 



Godwit, 133, 168, 170 ; great marbled, 

 168. 



Golden plover, 77 ; specific character, 

 143, 179 ; at Nepeague Beaoh, lb5. 



Golden-eye duck, 821. 



Goose, the, 803 ; wild, 804 ; Canada, 

 304; brant, 304; barnacle, 3u4; 

 brent, 80 1. 



Goosander weaser, 325. 



Grass plover, 152. 



Grassy point. 



Greater yellow-shanks, 165. 



Great pond. Long Island, 187. 



Great-head duck, 321. 



Green-head duck, 806, 



Green-winged teal, 314. 



Grey duck, 806, 310. 



Grey plover, 152. 



Grouse, timefor killing, 18. 



Guns, good and inferior, 27; first 

 used for feathered game, 7 ; chang- 

 ing, 28 ; for bay-birds, 87, 90 ; 

 cheap, dangerous, 28; light, neces- 

 sary, 29 ; difficulty of distinguishing 

 between good and bad, 8J ; Ger- 

 man, palmed off as English, SO ; 

 importers of. practise deceptions, 

 30; how to distinguish good from 

 bad, 81 ; how to select, 31 ; how to 

 carry, 87, 236 ; protect and clean, 

 87, 88, 89 ; Manton^s theory, 32 ; 

 breech, shape of, 32 ; breech-load- 

 ers, 82-87 ; advantages of, 42 ; ob- 

 jections to, 43-48 ; superiority of, 

 83; history of, S3; Lefaucheux, 

 33 ; Jeffries, 86 ; English preferred, 

 87 ; Dougall's invention — the lock- 

 fast— 61 ; the dead-shot, 48, 58-59 ; 

 makers of in America, 63 ; fired too 



' close to shooting companion, 70 ; 

 recoil of gun, 280 ; load for, 281 ; 

 shot for, 282 ; rules for safety, 284. 



HabiU of plover, 153-160. 



