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INDEX. 



Sprig-tail duck, 810. 



Sport, misapplication of term, 271, 

 272 ; when in perfection, 19 ; spoil- 

 ed by batteries, 2i); by watering- 

 places, 96 ; at South and West, 22, 

 220 ; at Barnegat Bay, 22 ; at Ne- 

 peague Beach, 180. 



Sporting, defence of, 273. 



Sportsmen, term misapplied, 18, 271 ; 

 protect birds, 14; club in the 

 West, 219 ; shooting there, 220 ; 

 suggestions to, 271 ; art of shoot- 

 ing, 274; shot, 275. 



Squan Beach, 97. 



Stands, 79 ; fight for, 106. 



Stools, 79-80 ; India-rubber, 83 ; dead 

 birds, 82; wooden, 81. 



Stories of Jersey pirates, ghosts, and 

 wreckers, 119; of the lucky man's 

 duck-shooting, 240 ; of the unlucky 

 man's trout-fishing, 245. 



" Stratton's," 'ST. 



Strepsilas, genus, 148 ; interpres, 182, 

 148. 



Swallows serviceable, 12. 



Summer-duck, 312. 



Swan, 805; White, 806; American, 



Table of shots with breech-loaders, 

 45, 46. 



Tatler, 166 ; semipahnated, 164 ; tell- 

 tale, 165. 



TeU-tate tatler, 165. 



The beach, New Jersey, lOl. 



The " dead shot," 48. 



The Englishman's woodcock-shoot- 

 ing, 126. 



The fight for stands, 126. 



« The Field," 48. 



The Pi-ench gentleman's shot, 69. 



The Jersey girls, 98. 



The " lockfast," 61. 



Times for killing birds, 17, 18, 19. 



Tetanus, 133. 168 ; semipalmatus, 

 164; vociferus, 165; flavipes, 166. 



" Trading." 104 



Traits of bay-birds, 103. 



Trap-shooting, 288 ; where pursued, 

 238; obtaining pigeons for, 289, 

 291 ; assistants for, 291 ; skill in, 

 29 1 ; tame and wild pigeons com- 

 pared, 292 ; how to keep pigeons 

 for, 293; varieties of traps, 294, 

 299 ; retrieving of birds in this 

 sport, 295 ; missfires, 296 ; guns 

 and load for, 296-298 ; number of 

 birds which may be killed in suc- 

 cession, 997 ; English rules, 293 ; 

 ties, 293 ; New York State Couven- 



tion of 1865, 299; plunge and 

 spring traps, 299 ; decay of trap- 

 shooting, 300 ; rules for, 826. 



Trial of breech-loaders in England, 43. 



Tring^, 138; Bartramia, 110, 152; 

 hiaticula, 158 ; cinerea, 150 ; rafa, 

 150 ; alpina, 150 , hiraantopus, 157 

 pectoralia, 160 ; semipalmata, 162 

 pusilla, 162. 



Turkey, 9. 



Turnstone, 132, 148. 



Unlucky man's trout-fishing, 245. 

 Upland game disappearingj 19. 

 Upland plover, 152. 

 Use of song-birds, 12. 



Varieties of bay-birds, 74; discus- 

 sion as to, 109. 



Varieties of names of bay-birds, 91, 

 109. 



Virginia rail, 201. 



Wager about duck-shooting, 263. 



Water-fowl, time t» kill, 18. 



Watering-place, spoils sport, 96. 



Welsh drake, 308. 



West, the aportmen'a club there, 

 219 ; adventure in, 221. 



Western sport, 22, 



Willet-shooting, 114. 



Wiilet, 164. 



Winter-snipe, 156. 



Wilson's plover, 113. 



Wilson's sandpiper, 162. 



Wild rice of the West, 224. 



Wild celery stolen from canvas-backs 

 by widgeons, 235. 



Wild-fowl shooting, 205 ; in batteries, 

 205 ; at the West and South, 206 

 dogs for, 207; localities for, 213 

 how to shoot. 215. 



Whistling for birds, 83. 



Whistler duck, 821. 



White swan, 306. 



Widgeon, 319. 



Wild duck, 806. 



Woodcock, European, 8 ; a game- 

 bird. 10 ; time to kill, 17 ; shoot- 

 ing by the Englishman, 126. 



Wood-duck. 312. 



Wooden stools. 81. 



Worms, depredations of. 11. 



Wreckers of Jersey coast, 116. 



Yellow-legs, 77, 166: big, 165; little. 



166. 

 Yellow-shanks, greater, 165. 

 Yellow-tatler, 166. 

 Yelper, 77, 165. 



