March 4, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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American Game Bird Shooting 
By George "Bird Grinnell 
This new book covers the whole field of upland shooting in America as this field has never 
before been covered, and is intensely interesting and useful to everyone who uses the 
shotgun. It deals with the birds followed with dog and gun by the upland shooter, and 
describes the habits of the woodcock, snipe, all the North American quail, all the grouse and 
the wild turkeys. 
The completion of this book was a large task, requiring exceptional qualifications, knowledge 
and experience, and was never before accomplished by any other author. 
It is the companion volume to Mr. Grinnell’s book, “American Duck Shooting.” Thus the 
two books cover the entire field of game birds taken with the shotgun, with complete 
description of their natural history features. 
“A very complete monograph for sportsmen 
and naturalists... .with anecdotes, of his own 
and others... .the book will be enjoyed not 
only by sportsmen but by the general reader.” 
—The Sun, New York. 
“An important, thoroughly reliable and well 
written book; a work that will be read with in¬ 
terest and pleasure by sportsmen. The work 
is the first complete one of its kind.” 
—The Boston Globe. 
“No book as good as this on the subject treated, 
nor so fully covering the field, has been pro¬ 
duced.” — The Salt Lake Tribune. 
“This volume is especially welcome—a treat 
to every man who loves to tramp the uplands 
with dog and gun.” —Inter-Ocean, Chicago. 
“Each bird is taken up in turn, the best methods 
to hunt, the selection of guns and loads, cloth¬ 
ing and dogs are set forth simply and fully.” 
—Baltimore American. 
“It is, I think, a model of what such a book 
should be—but so seldom is. It is, indeed, 
much more than a treatise on field sports, for it 
furnishes such full and excellent life histories of 
the birds of which it treats that it should find a 
place in every library devoted to pure orni¬ 
thology.” 
—Will iam Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
PART I. Describes in detail the ways of life of all the American Game Birds; woodcock, 
snipe, bobwhite, mountain quail, California quail, Gambel’s quail, scaled quail and Mearn’s 
quail; dusky grouse, Franklin’s grouse, Canada grouse, ruffed grouse, all the ptarmigan, 
pinnated grouse, sharp tail grouse and sage grouse, and the wild turkeys. 
PART II. Is devoted to upland shooting. Here are described at length and in detail all the 
various methods of taking all the birds mentioned above, and the various aids to shooting, 
such as guns and loads, dogs and clothing. 
PART III. Deals with the shooting of the past and future; tells of the efforts to introduce 
foreign and native game birds to restock our covers, and of the successful attempts by 
Dr. Clinton F. Hodge to rear in captivity the ruffed grouse and bobwhite. 
The volume is handsomely illustrated. There are colored plates of the ruffed grouse and the quail, 
made by America’s greatest bird painter, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and 48 other full page plates, most of 
them photographs from life, showing portraits of different species of birds and interesting shooting 
scenes. In the text are a number of useful and interesting line cuts. Everyone who delights in the 
outdoor life and rejoices in tramping the field and woods with dog and gun should possess this handsome 
volume, which speaks the final word on upland shooting, as its predecessor in this field did on wildfowl 
shooting. 
Cloth. About 575 pages. Price $3.50 net. Postage 25 cents. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 127 Franklin Street, NEW YORK CITY 
