O CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Golden Plover, Curlew, Gray Plover. 



Arrival of Golden. Plover and Curlew— First Seen on Burnt Prairies 

 —Plover like Bare Earth and Pastures— Golden Plover and Cur- 

 lew in Flocks Together— They Follow the Plough— Lying Down 

 for Plover— Plover Shooting from a Buggy — The Method of It- 

 How to Shoot Plover on Foot — Plover Circle Bound the 'Wounded 

 — An Afternoon's Shooting near Elkhart — Plover Shooting in 

 Christian County— Golden Plover Scattered— Fast Flyers and 

 Good Practice — The Upland or Gray Plover— Last of Spring 

 Migrants — Breeds in Illinois, Iowa, etc. — Eeady to Pair when It 

 Arrives— Should^not be Shot in the Spring— Nest of the Upland 

 Plover — Difficult to Shoot in Autumn — Horse and Buggy Needed 

 —Flight of Upland Plover— Sand Snipe and Grass Snipe, . 149-167 



CHAPTER X. 



Wild Duces and Western Duck Shooting. 



The Prime Western Ducks— Beauty of the Wood Duck— Its Bapid 

 Flight — The Mallard— Its Excellence and Beauty— Comparison 

 with Canvas-Back — Mallards 1 Nests — The Flappers — Ducks begin 

 to Arrive by Middle of February — Habits of Mallards and Pintails 

 — Their Vast Numbers — Remain Four or Five Weeks — Coming of 

 Ducks in the Fall — Vast Numbers — When Cold Sets In — Heard 

 in the Air all Night — Duck Shooting in the Corn-Fields— Color of 

 Clothes Important — Ducks Wary and Far-Sighted — Method of 

 Shooting, 168-183 



CHAPTEB XI. 

 Duces and Western Duck Shooting. 



Cold Work in Hard Weather— The Illinois Eiver— The Western 

 Corn-Fields — Shooting in Them in Fall — Osage Orange Hedges — 

 Flight of Ducks in Wet, Windy Weather — In Clear Weather — 

 Ducks in Flight seem Nearer than They Are — Shooting at Prairie 

 Ponds and Sloughs — Live Decoys Best — Dead Duck Decoys bet- 

 ter than Wooden — Method of Setting Dead Mallards as Decoys — 

 Duck Shooting in the Winnebago Swamp— Duck Shooting in Ford 

 County— Mr. M. Sullivant's Great Farm— Duck Shooting on the 

 Sangamon — Shooting from the Timber — Ninety-five Mallards with 

 No. 9 Shot — Water Fowl Seek Timber in Hard, Windy 

 Weather, 188-19" 



