CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER VI. 



Ruffed Grouse Shooting. 



Distribution and Habits of the Birds— Found in Wild, Lonely- 

 Places— Favorite Food of Ruffed Grouse— Beauty and Pride of 

 the Bird— The Drumming of the Male— Deceptiveness of the 

 Sound — Maedonald's Drummer-Boy — Much Drumming Before 

 Rain— Nest of the Ruffed Grouse— The Young on the Cass River, 

 Michigan— Wolves at the Camp on the Cass— The Chippewa 

 Indians— Wildness of Ruffed Grouse— The First I ever Shot- 

 Ruffed Grouse hard to Shoot Flying— Goes for Densest Part of 

 tho Thicket— May be Shot over Setters, .... 107-130 



CHAPTER VII. 



Shooting the Woodcocs. 



Arrival in Spring— The Breeding Season— Nest of the Woodcock— 

 A Woodcock in Confinement — Voracity in Feeding — Young Full 

 Grown in July— Solitary Birds after Separation of Brood— Noc- 

 turnal in Habit — Supposed Second Migration — Laboring Flight in 

 Summer — Difficult to shoot— Density of Foliage — Snap Shooting — 

 . Swift and Twisting Flight in Autumn — Bottoms and Islands of 

 the Mississippi River — Woodcock on the Illinois River — Scarcer 

 in general in the West than in the Atlantic States— Fall Wood- 

 cock Shooting, , , 131-133 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Th3 Snipe and Snipe Shooting. 



Breeds North of Virginia, but only sparsely in the United States- 

 Arrives at Columbus, Kentucky, early in March — Never appears 

 before the Frost out of Ground— Nearly a Month Later in Illinois 

 than in Kentucky — The Spring Shooting Best — Snipe Wild at 

 First Arrival — Get Fat and Lazy — Snipe Shooting on the Sanga- 

 mon— Snipe very Abundant in the West — Should be Beat for 

 Down-Wind— No Need for Dog on Good Snipe Ground— Difficult 

 to Shoot in Corn-Fields — Shooting on the Bottoms — Easy to Kill 

 when Fat — A Proposed Match — In Snipe Shooting much Walking 

 Required— Snipe Shooting along Sloughs and Swales— Hovering of 

 Snipe— Tho Fall Snipo Shooting, 133-148 



