Geese, game-birds, 10; description of varieties, 303. Genus strepsilas, 148; totanus, 163; limosa, 168; numenius, 173; anser, 303; cygnus, 305; anas, 306; fuligula, 318; Mergus, 324. German guns, 30; duck, 308. Ghost stories of Jersey coast, 120. Giraud on plover, 112. Godwit, 133, 168, 170; great marbled, 168. Golden plover, 77; specific character, 143, 179; at Nepeague Beach, 185. Golden-eye duck, 321. Goose, the, 303; wild, 304; Canada, 304; brant, 304; barnacle, 304; brent, 304. Goosander weaser, 325. Grass plover, 152. Grassy point, 255, 268 Greater yellow-shanks, 165. Great pond, Long Island, 187. Great-head duck, 321. Green-head duck, 306. Green-winged teal, 314. Grey duck, 306, 310. Grey plover, 152. Grouse, time for killing, 18. Guns, good and inferior, 27; first used for feathered game, 7; changing, 28; for bay-birds, 87, 90; cheap, dangerous, 28; light, necessary, 29; difficulty of distinguishing between good and bad, 30; German, palmed off as English, 30; importers of, practise deceptions, 30; how to distinguish good from bad, 31; how to select, 31; how to carry, 87, 286; protect and clean, 87, 88, 89; Manton’s theory, 32; breech, shape of, 32; breech-loaders, 32-37; advantages of, 42; objections to, 43-48; superiority of, 33; history of, 33; Lefaucheux, 33; Jeffries, 36; English preferred, 37; Dougall’s invention--the lockfast--61; the dead-shot, 48, 58-59; makers of in America, 63; fired too close to shooting companion, 70; recoil of gun, 280; load for, 281; shot for, 282; rules for safety, 284. Habits of plover, 153-160. Hackensack rail-shooting, 201. Hawking in olden time, 7. “Henry,” 252; his advice, 252; he shoots with the author, 264. Horsefoot snipe, 92, 132, 148. How to clean, carry, and protect the gun, 87, 88, 89. How to string birds, 94. How to approach plover, 155. Hudsonian curlew, 173. Hunting in olden time, 7. Hunting, comparison between ancient and modern, 8. Imported guns best, 63. Improper pursuit of game, 20. Incubation of bay-birds, 73. India-rubber stools, 83. Inferior guns, 27. Inlet, closing of, 134. Interest of farmer to protect game-birds, 10. Irishman’s duck-shooting, 255. Jack-curlew, 76, 173. Jacks, 133. Jack-snipe, 160. Jakey’s tavern, 102. Jeffries’ breech-loaders, 36. Jersey, a girl from, 98. Jersey coast shooting, 106. Jersey courts and damages, 180. Jersey, bathing in, 103. Jersey coast, a day’s shooting on, 106. Judgment required in bay-bird shooting, 70. Kentuckian’s bass-fishing, 261; his wager, 263. Kildeer plover, 113-146. Killing song-birds, 13. “ game-birds out of season, 15. “ birds, game-laws, 14. “ legal times for, 17, 18, 19. “ by batteries, 21, 22, 25; by pivot-guns, 23, 25; by sail-boats, 24. Killing snipe, ducks, and rail, gun for, 60. Krieker, 78, 131, 160. Lakes at the West increasing, 268.