INDEX. 



335 



Pectoral sandpiper, 92-160. 



Peculiarities of bay-birds, 186. 



Pigeon-match in England, 44, 



Pigeon-shooting practice, 2-4. 



Pigeon-taU duck, 810. 



Pintail duck, 310. 



Potomac, ducks on, 20. 



Pivot-guns, condemned, 23-25. 



Plover, shooting, directions for, 188; 

 a game bird, 10 ; kinds of, 109 ; 

 discussion about, 110, 111 ; Frank 

 Forester and Giraud on, 112; cha- , 

 radrius helveticus, 112, 141 ; plu- 

 vialis, 112. 148 ; black-bellied. 112, 

 141 ; bull-head, 112, 141 ; ring-neck 

 or ring, 113; semipalmatus, 113; I 

 Wilson's, lis ; piping or beach- 

 bird, 113, 145; melodius, 113;! 

 kildeer, 113, 140; vociferus, 113, 

 146; "Bill's" remarks about names ' 

 of, 118 ; specific character of each 

 species, 141 ; black-breast, 141, | 

 156 ; beetle-headed, 141 ; American i 

 golden, 143, 179 ; frost bird, 143 ; i 

 hiaticula, 145; sanderling, 147; , 

 rubidus, 147 ; turnstone, 14^ ; ge- ' 

 nus strepsilas, 148 ; brant-bird, 

 148; strepsilas inlerpres, 148; horse- ' 

 foot snipe, 148 ; beach-robins, 148 ; I 

 sandpiper, 150; robin-snipe, 150; I 

 red-breasted sandpiper, 150 ; trin- j 

 ga cinerea, 150 ; tringa rufa, 150; 

 upland plover, 152 ; grey, grass, 

 or field, 152, 179. 



Plover, American ring, 158. 



(See bay-birds and bay-snipe.) 



Poachers, 15. 



Pond-Uly channel, 269. 



Punting for rail, 192. 



Quail, a game-bird, 10; not migra- 

 tory, 10; time for killing, 17-18, 

 Quail snipe, 171. 



Raccoon Beach, 23. 



Rail, a game-bird, 10 ; none in Eng- 

 land, 58; shooting, 190; flight oi; 

 191 ; description of sport, 191, 202 ; 

 in boat, 192; Delaware sport, 194, 

 197; breech-loader best for, 192^ 

 charge for, 195 ; best places for 

 rail-shooting, 199; rail in Illinois, 

 199 ; varieties of, 201 ; short-billed 

 and long-billed, 201 ; Hackensack 

 shooting, 201 ; eating of, 208, 



Raft-duck, 320. 



Red-head duck, 319. 



Red-backed sandpiper, 156. 



Red-breasted sandpiper, 160-171. 



Restaurants having game out of sea^ 



son, 15. 

 Ring-plover or rfng-neck, 113-158. 

 Ring-tailed marlin, 170, 

 Rivaliy in bay-snipe shooting, 70. 

 Robberies by ducks from each other. 



235. 

 Robins, service of, 12. 

 Robin-snipe, 78-160. 

 Rules for trap-shooting, 326. 



Sail-boat used to pursue ducks, 24. 



Sand-fleas, 185. 



Sander'ing, 147. 



Sandpiper, 133, 150 ; Bartram's, 110, 

 152 ; pectoral, 92, 160 ; red-breast- 

 ed, 150 ; red-backed, 156 ; long- 

 legged, 157 ; Wilson's, 162. 



Scaup. 238, 820. 



Scientific names for birds, 92, 



ScolopacidEe, 132, 170 ; noveboracen- 

 siB, 183, 171; flavipes, 166; fedoa, 

 168. 



Seasons for bay-birds, 71. 



Sea-duck, 318. 



Semipalmated tatler, 164. 



Shell-drake, 825. 



Shooting, dress for, 90 ; match in 

 England, 44 ; on Jersey coast, 106 ; 

 rail, 190 ; from boats, 192 ; duck, 

 216; at the West, 220; art of, 

 274; trap, rules for, 326. 



Short-billed curlew, 178. 



Short-neck, 92. 



Shot, the dead, 45, 58; by the French 

 gentleman, 69 ; for ducks, 288; 

 what is a good one, 277 ; cross, 

 278 ; aim, 279 ; recoil, 280 ; crack, 

 274 ; load, 281 ; quickness, 288 ; 

 practice, 283. 



ShoveUer duck, 817. 



Sickle-bills, 75, 188 



Sickle-billed curlew, 174 



Sir Francis Francis, 277. 



Sneak-box, 114 



Snipe, a game - bird, 10 ; time for 

 killing, 17; when it stools, 188; 

 migration of, 13 ; time for bay- 

 snipe, 19 ; batteries, 20 ; no bay- 

 snipe in England, 58; killed by 

 breech-loaders, 60; English snipe, 

 114, 183; shooting bay-shlpe, 66, 

 103 ; what are so-called, 66 ; win- 

 ter-snipe, 156 ; peep, 156 ; blind, 

 157 ; frost, 157 ; meadow, 160 ; 

 jack, 160; quail, 171- ; snipe, 170. 

 (See bay-snipe.) 



South-southerly duck, 828. 



Spoonbill duck, 317. 



Spirit duck, 822. 



