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INDEX. 
Punishment of dogs, i, 183, 238, 
363. 
Punt for Rail shooting, i, 281, 294. 
for stanchion gun, ii, 144. 
Purgatives for dogs, i, 350. 
Quack of the Woodcock, i, 89. 
Quail, common American, i, 36. 
the Californian, i, 36. 
the Plumed, i, 36. 
the Welcome, i, 36. 
the Painted, i, 36. 
the Douglas, i, 36. 
description of the common, i, 
80. 
call of, i, 220. 
habits of, i, 224, 226. 
haunts of, i, 227, et seq. 236. 
flight of, i, 230. 
migrations of, i, 220. 
nest of, i, 222. 
scent of, i, 269. 
shooting of, 219, 258. 
Quartering ground, i, 180, 236. 
Queen’s county, Long Island, i, 
Rabbit, none in America, i, 34. 
Hare, so called, i, 32. 
Common, i, 100. 
White, i, 103. 
Racquet river, ii, 199. 
Rail, Virginia, i, 39, 291. 
Clapper, i, 39, 291. 
Sora, i, 39: ii, 274. 
Great Red-breasted or King, 
i, 291. 
natural history of the Sora, i, 
274. 
habits o£ i, 280. 
migrations of, i, 288. 
fits of, i, 285. 
shooting of, i, 293. 
Rallus Virginianus, i, 39, 291. 
Crepitans, i, 39, 291. 
Carolinus, i, 39, 291. 
Elegans, ii, 285. 
Range of shooting, i, 154,178, 231: 
ii, 117, 130, 321. 
at fowl, ii, 130, 144, 321. 
1 Range of shooting, of cartridges, i, 
149, 237, 317. 
Ranging of dogs, i, 180, 236. 
Rangers of Texas, ii, 259. 
Raquette, mal d, ii, 224. 
Repairing of firearms, ii, 259. 
Retriever, i, 184, 187, 301, 363. 
Rifles, American, ii, 225. 
Purdey’s double, ii, 225. 
two grooved, ii, 226, 259. 
C. A. Murray’s, ii. 226. 
H. M. regiments, ii, 227. 
yager, ii, 228. 
loading, muzzle of, ii, 226. 
crescent, heel-plate of, ii, 228. 
flint-locked, ii, 260. 
Rifle shooting, American and Eu¬ 
ropean compared, ii, 227. 
field and target compared, ii, 
226. 
Rifts of Mountain torrents, ii, 257. 
Rip-Raps, the, ii, 49. 
Rock, Ptarmigan, i, 37 : ii, 298. 
Rocky Mountains, i, 33: ii, 187, 
298. 
Mountain Goat, i, 32: ii, 148, 
182. 292. 
Mountain sports, ii, 292. 
Rolling gait of the Bison, ii, 258. 
prairies, ii, 263. 
Runway of Deer, ii, 199. 
Rush of a wounded Bison, ii, 258. 
of a horse, ii, 258. 
Salt water Teal, ii, 89. 
Sand Shoal Duck, ii, 92. 
Sandford, Mr. Michael, i, 184. 
Sanderling, ii, 30. 
Sanding places of Brent, ii, 67. 
Sandpipers, i, 39. 
Curlew, ii, 12. 
the Red-breasted, ii, 9. 
the Red-backed, ii, 11. 
the Pectoral, ii, 14. 
the Semipalmated, ii, 27. 
Wilson’s, ii, 28. 
the Spotted, ii, 32. 
the Upland, i, 94. 
Saskatchewan river, ii, 182. 
Scaup Duck, ii, 82. 
