Punting for rail, 192. Quail, a game-bird, 10; not migratory, 10; time for killing, 17-18. Quail snipe, 171. Raccoon Beach, 23. Rail, a game-bird, 10; none in England, 58; shooting, 190; flight of, 191; description of sport, 191, 202; in boat, 192; Delaware sport, 194, 197; breech-loader best for, 192; charge for, 195; best places for rail-shooting, 199; rail in Illinois, 199; varieties of, 201; short-billed and long-billed, 201; Hackensack shooting, 201; eating of, 203. Raft-duck, 320. Red-head duck, 319. Red-backed sandpiper, 156. Red-breasted sandpiper, 150-171. Restaurants having game out of season, 15. Ring-plover or ring-neck, 113-158. Ring-tailed marlin, 170. Rivalry in bay-snipe shooting, 70. Robberies by ducks from each other, 235. Robins, service of, 12. Robin-snipe, 78-150. Rules for trap-shooting, 326. Sail-boat used to pursue ducks, 24. Sand-fleas, 135. Sanderling, 147. Sandpiper, 133, 150; Bartram’s, 110, 152; pectoral, 92, 160; red-breasted, 150; red-backed, 156; long-legged, 157; Wilson’s, 162. Scaup, 238, 320. Scientific names for birds, 92. Scolopacidæ, 132, 170; noveboracensis, 132, 171; flavipes, 166; fedoa, 168. Seasons for bay-birds, 71. Sea-duck, 318. Semipalmated tatler, 164. Shell-drake, 325. Shooting, dress for, 90; match in England, 44; on Jersey coast, 106; rail, 190; from boats, 192; duck, 216; at the West, 220; art of, 274; trap, rules for, 326. Short-billed curlew, 173. Short-neck, 92. Shot, the dead, 45, 58; by the French gentleman, 69; for ducks, 238; what is a good one, 277; cross, 278; aim, 279; recoil, 280; crack, 274; load, 281; quickness, 283; practice, 283. Shoveller duck, 317. Sickle-bills, 75, 133. Sickle-billed curlew, 174. Sir Francis Francis, 277. Sneak-box, 114 Snipe, a game-bird, 10; time for killing, 17; when it stools, 133; migration of, 18; time for bay-snipe, 19; batteries, 20; no bay-snipe in England, 58; killed by breech-loaders, 60; English snipe, 114, 133; shooting bay-snipe, 66, 103; what are so-called, 66; winter-snipe, 156; peep, 156; blind, 157; frost, 157; meadow, 160; jack, 160; quail, 171; snipe, 170. (See bay-snipe.) South-southerly duck, 323. Spoonbill duck, 317. Spirit duck, 322. Sprig-tail duck, 310. Sport, misapplication of term, 271, 272; when in perfection, 19; spoiled by batteries, 20; by watering-places, 96; at South and West, 22, 220; at Barnegat Bay, 22; at Nepeague Beach, 180. Sporting, defence of, 273. Sportsmen, term misapplied, 13, 271; protect birds, 14; club in the West, 219; shooting there, 220; suggestions to, 271; art of shooting, 274; shot, 275. Squan Beach, 97. Stands, 79; fight for, 106. Stools, 79-80; India-rubber, 83; dead birds, 82; wooden, 81.