PREFACE 
O FULL AND COMPLETE 
work on American upland shooting 
has as yet been written. Volumes 
have been published, each of which 
covers some section of what ts really 
a large subject, but from the broader sportsman’s 
viewpoint no one of them is complete. Of these works, 
the most useful was written by the veteran naturalist 
and sportsman, D. G. Elliott, whose “Game Birds of 
North America” deals chiefly with the natural history 
side of the grouse and quails, and touches only lightly 
on the methods by which they are pursued for sport. 
It seems time now that a book should be written, 
covering the whole subject of upland American game- 
bird shooting; that is, the shooting of those birds in 
which the pointing dog is the assistant to the gun— 
the turkeys, grouse and quail, and the American wood- 
cock and Wilson’s snipe, called also “English” and 
“jack” snipe, a bird of continental distribution, 
Some years ago I brought together a large amount 
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