GAME OP AMERICA 
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Here ends what may, I believe, be termed a complete list of 
all the game, both quadruped and winged, of the United States 
and the Provinces ; I am not aware of a single omission ; per¬ 
haps, indeed, in the latter portion of my catalogue, the fowl es¬ 
pecially, I have admitted some genera, which are of so rare 
occurrence on the coast, as to fall seldom before the gunner’s 
aim ; and which, therefore, can hardly be enumerated as regularly 
game. I judged it, however, better to err on this, than on the 
other side of the question ; and the error, if error there be, 
will be rectified when I come to speak of the various kinds of 
shooting, and the habits of the animals pursued in each. 
And here I should, perhaps, apologize to my readers for the 
apparent but necessary dryness of this part of my work. A 
catalogue never can be rendered entertaining, and yet it is indis¬ 
pensable. I think I can promise that future pages will possess more 
interest to the general reader, although I should strenuously 
urge it on him, who desires really to make himself a master 
of the subject, not to skip or slur over the above list of names, 
but to fix them in his understanding and his memory, as I shall 
have constant occasion to refer to them hereafter, and as a know¬ 
ledge of them is absolutely necessary to the acquisition of skill 
and science in field sports, in their widest range and most liberal 
signification. 
I now come to the subdivisions of my subject, according to 
the different regions of country to which the different kinds 
of shooting and hunting, and the different species of game be¬ 
long. These, it appears to me, are threefold, chiefly. 
First. Upland shooting, which may be termed particularly the 
field sports of the Northern and Midland States, consisting in the 
pursuit of small game—as the Pinnated and Ruffed Grouse, the 
Quail, the Woodcock, the Snipe, the Upland Plover, the Hare, 
the Rail, and one or two species of Duck, which are found only 
on inland streams and marshes—with the double gun, and the 
trained pointer, setter, spaniei, or retriever. 
Second. Fowl shooting, whether from sailing-boats., batteries, 
or otherwise ; and, under this head, I include the killing of the 
