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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
306 pages~6 hr 6 min read72 chaptersFree this month
The marshes and shores of the north once darkened with clouds of wildfowl. Robert Roosevelt writes on the game-birds of the coasts and lakes, their protection, the guns that hunted them, and the craft of bay-snipe shooting. A vivid record of American wildfowling in its heyday. Take to the flats after the great flocks of the northern shores.
Includes read-aloud narration with live word highlighting.
Inside this book
72 chapters
- 1THE GAME-BIRDS OF THE COASTS AND LAKES OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF AMERICA.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3THE GAME BIRDS OF THE NORTH.
- 4CHAPTER I. GAME AND ITS PROTECTION.
- 5CHAPTER II. GUNNERY—MUZZLE-LOADERS AND BREECH-LOADERS.
- 6TABLES OF THE FIELD TRIAL.
- 7TABLES OF THE FIELD TRIAL.
- 8CHAPTER III. BAY-SNIPE SHOOTING.
- 9CHAPTER IV. THE JERSEY COAST. “A Girl from New Jersey.”
- 10CHAPTER V. BAY-BIRDS.
- 11Plovers.
- 12Black-Breast.
- 13American Golden Plover.
- 14Beach-Bird.
- 15Kildeer.
- 16Sanderling.
- 17Turnstone.
- 18Brant-Bird.
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