“ game, which are, 10; in restaurants out of season, 15; protection of, 10, 13, 14; services rendered by, 11, 12; out of season, 16; legal time for killing, 17; singing birds, murder of, 13; season for killing different kinds, 17, 18, 19; migration of game-birds, 18. Black-bellied plover, 112-141. Bald-pate duck, 309. Black duck, 308. Black-head duck, 320. Blue-bill duck, 320. Blue-winged teal, 316. Blind for shooting, 106. Blind-snipe, 157. Blue-bills, 238. Blue-fish, season for, 133. Bony fish, 134. Black-breast, 141, 156. Brant-bird, 148. Breech-loaders, 32, 37; advantages of, 42, 287; objections to, 43, 48-49; superiority of, 33; history of, 33; Lefaucheux, 33; mode of using, 34, 35; safety of, 39; cartridge for, 34, 39, 50, 62; needle-gun, 36; Jeffries gun, 36; English gun, 37; impervious to wet, 41; apparatus necessary for, 37; recoil of, 41; refilling cartridges, 54, 57; trial between breech and muzzle-loaders in 1863, 44; pigeon match with, 44; discussion as to in “The Field,” 43; the dead shot, 48-59; heating of gun, 58; useful for killing snipe, duck, and rail, 60; compared with muzzle-loaders, 60; Dougall’s invention, the lockfast, 61; price of, 62; must be imported, 64. Broad-bill, 238, 320. Brown-back, 171. Bull-headed plover, 112-141. Buffel-headed duck, 322. Butter-ball duck, 322. Calls for birds, 79, 83-84. Canvas-back ducks classified as sea-ducks, 237; comparison between them and mallards, 237, 318. Carrying gun, 87. Cartridges for breech-loaders, 34-39; safety of, 39; impervious to wet, 41; objections to answered, 50; filling, 50; refilling, 54-57; extractor, 54; missfires with, 56; best kind, 62. (See breech-loaders.) Cedar-birds destroy worms, 11. Change of guns, 28. Change of seasons for birds, 113. Charadrius, helveticus, 112, 141; pluvialis, 112, 143, 179; semipalmatus, 113; vociferus, 113, 146; hiaticula, 145; rubidus, 147. Charge used for shooting bay-birds, 87. “Charley’s,” 101. Cheap guns, 28. Chesapeake Bay, ducks on, 20. Cleaning gun, 89. Close times for killing game-birds, 17. Clubs, sportsmen’s, 14; Western, 219. Coast of New Jersey, 106. Comparison between breech and muzzle-loaders, 60. Confusion in names of birds, 91. Cook’s “Tommy,” 98. Crabtown, 100. Crack shots, 274. Cross-shots, 278. Cries of birds, 84. Curlew, 76, 133, 173; Esquimaux, 176. Cygnus, genus, 305; Americanus, 306. Dead birds, stools made of, 82. “Dead-shot,” the, 48, 58-59. Deceptions by gun-makers, 30. Decoys, 79. Defence of sporting, 273. Definition of game in English law, 7. Delaware rail-shooting, 197. Depredations of worms checked by birds, 10-11. Derivation of name of “plover,” 111. Description of plover, 111. Dipper-duck, 322. Doe-bird, 176.