FIELD SPOKTS 
OP THE 
UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES. 
BAY SHOOTING. 
HE Atlantic coasts of the United 
States, with the deep bays and in¬ 
dentures of their shores, the estuaries 
of their noble rivers, the wide extent 
of salt marshes and meadows, inter¬ 
spersed with shallow land-locked 
washes and lagoons, abound, per. 
haps, more than any other region of 
the world, in which man and cultivation exist, with all the va¬ 
rious tribes of water-fowl and waders, which can minister to the 
amusement of the sportsman. From the magnificent and stately 
Swan, down to the minute Sandpiper, every species of aquatic 
birds abound in their appropriate latitude, and in their peculiar 
season. 
From Boston bay to the Balize, some portion of the coast 
will, at all times of the year, be found to swarm with all the 
