American gun-makers, 63. American ring-plover, 158; swan, 306. Anas, bernicla, 304; canadensis, 304; genus, 306; boschas, 306; obscura, 308; strepera, 308; Americana, 309; acuta, 310; sponsa, 312; crecca, 314; discors, 316; clypeata, 317. Ancient and modern hunting, 8. Apparatus necessary for breech-loader, 37. Appendix, 303. Barnegat Bay, 22. Barnegat pirates, 117-118. Bartram’s sandpiper, 152. Bass-fishing out West, 261. Bathing-party on Jersey coast, 103. Batteries, 20; description of, 21, 205; condemned, 21, 22, 25. Bay-birds, 19; definition of, 66; improper modes of pursuing, 20; batteries, 20, 21, 22, 25. (See Bay-Snipe.) Bay-snipe, shooting, 66, 103, 104; none in England, 58; what are, 66; traits of, 103; sociability of, 103; peculiarities of, 136; “trading,” 104; skill required for shooting, 67; sport of shooting, 68-106; shooting on the Jersey coast, 106; the French gentleman’s beautiful shot, 69; rivalry in shooting, 70; number bagged at one shot, 70; flight of uncertainty as to, 71, 85, 86-87; season for sport, 71-72; flying, mode of, 72; flight, line of, 73-86; lead migration of game birds, 18; flight, direction of, 73-74; period of incubation, 73; varieties of, 74; sickle-bills, 75; jack-curlew, 76; plover, 109; marlin, 76; willet, 77; golden plover, 77-112; black-breast, 77; yelper, 77; yellow-legs, 77; brant-bird, 78-132; robin-snipe, 78; dowitcher, 78-132; krieker, 78-131; pursuit of; best mode, 78; stools, 79-80, 82-83; calls, 79, 83-84; stands, 79; wooden stools best, 81; whistling, 84; cries of the birds, 84; shooting, uncertainty of, 85; gun to be used for, 87-90; charge and powder for, 87-91; how to carry the gun, 87; shooting, dress for, 90; names of; confusion as to, 91; names of, varieties of, 91; names of, scientific, 92-109; varieties of; Bartram’s sandpiper, 110; frost-bird and frost-snipe, 92-113; meadow-snipe, 92; beach-bird, 92; fat-bird, 92; short-neck, 92; pectoral sandpiper, 92; horsefoot snipe, 92-132; varieties of, discussion about, 109; which are good eating, 93; stringing, how to be done, 94; migration of, 94; localities for, 94-95, 97; not killed south of Virginia, 95; at Quogue, 96; sport spoiled by establishment of watering-place, 96; at Squan Beach, 97; at Barnegat, Egg Harbor, Brigantine Beach, 97; shooting in New Jersey, 106. Beach-bird, 113, 145. Beach on Jersey coast, 101. Beach-robins, 148. Beetle-headed plover, 141. Big yellow-legs, 165. “Bill,” and the names of the plovers, 113. Bill’s ghost stories, 120. Bill’s house, 116. Birds, wounded, what becomes of them, 237. Birds, definition of term, 9.