| Summary: | An 1880's guide to game water-bird hunting in Florida and other select areas along the Eastern Seaboard. Pt. I. Florida -- Ch. I. Florida--the inland passage -- Ch. II. In Florida -- Ch. III. Currituck marshes -- Pt. II. The game water-birds -- Ch. I. Game of ancient and modern days. Its protection and importance. The proper shooting seasons. The impolicy of using batteries and pivot-guns -- Ch. II. Guns and gunnery. Breech-loaders compared with muzzle loaders. All the late improvements in breech-loaders. Hammerless guns -- Ch. III. Bay-snipe shooting. The birds, their habits, peculiarities, and places of resort. Stools and whistles. Dress and implements appropriate to their pursuit. Their names and mode of capture -- Ch. IV. The New Jersey coast. Jersey girls and their pleasant ways. The peculiarities of Bay-snipe further elucidated. Mosquitoes rampant. Good shooting and "fancy" sport. Shipwrecks and ghosts -- Ch. V. Bay-birds. Particular descriptions and scientific characteristics. A complete account of each variety -- Ch. VI. Montauk Point. American golden plover or frost-bird. A true story of three thousand in a flock. Lester's Tavern. Good eating, fine fishing, and splendid shooting. The Nepeague beach -- Ch. VII. Rail and rail-shooting. Seasons, localities, and incidents of sport. Use of breech-loader or muzzle-loader. Equipment -- Ch. VIII. Wild-fowl shooting. General directions, from boats, blinds, or batteries. Retrievers from Baltimore and Newfoundland. Western sport. Equipment -- Ch. IX. Duck-shooting on the inland lakes. The club house. Practical views of practical men. Moral tales. A day's fishing. The closing scenes -- Ch. X. Suggestions to sportsmen. A definition of the term. Crack shots. The art of shooting. The art of not shooting -- Ch. XI. Directions for building a battery -- Appendix. An 1880's guide to game water-bird hunting in Florida and other select areas along the Eastern Seaboard. Electronic reproduction. s CF00001556_0002_000
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