The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-06

clubs-Ike the one I Just mentioned. or tn e
| down at Islip, to which Lori LARD belongs-or IN
some other wav have drifted out OF our KIN wi
edge To great degree, but many more nave
eon ~ tnsir VI ,ces Pref; Dorsm1s snd 1S Ns
Workers are here now, aud " the inlet To shin
necock bay Is made next wi1ter' at I'M. p9int,
/ where nature requires IL to be, instead OF at
South Hampton. whore IL Nils up every sprinR.
the future OF QuoGue and indeed all around
AZ least during a nuinbor OF years. We Will
always have good shouting here at this season
! Down At Islp aud u ,bylOn. and below there, the
summ,r ana fail supe shooting Is from three
weeks to month later than ours In beginning.
! hut does not last much, n any longer. The birds
10 down Dast us to gee there, YOU know.
now TO HUNT PLovER.
"But am diaressins. and had better 20 on
giving you the ut Of our plover. Tuking them
scale, tbe first to he noticed Is the grass plover
10 wbicn the local appel ton generally applied
ana upand Al" VS. sn@iy. never in osss ne as
are very shy. wary birds. difficult TO ootai n, but
wortn ~ the lime and trouble Of getting them.
For delicious game, always commanding hign
price IN market, they hive no superiors. In
appearance hey much resemble Jack. or Eng
iish snipe. exospt that tosir legs are longer and
their bills shorter The best way to hunt them
Is with horse and buggy, both because they
are SO scattered and one has to cover musn
around To get them, and because In that way
you can vet 40 much nearer to them than UPON
loot; very common wy here, however, IL 20
let the sbooier lie behind fence on tho Wind
woru side OF a u5id md send toy around TO
leewaid to drive the birds toward his gun. They
| viii only rise one at n time, two Of them never
being tuund near together. 80 II thu shooter has
tue skiii and any sort OF luck In t0eir hisht, ne
oinuot help doing well In thst way.
Next como The black -Drs ssted plover, lisbtiy
notified birds, the NAL 3 wearing . large round
black spot on the breast, excepting which spot
they are considerably lighter eoiorsd than the
sr'ss plover. hey feed on angie worm bugs, and
siph prey, whlch tniy nn IN stu0oie de,ds aod
Old meadows. You will Ind thsm IN locke, and
CANNING On foot will De aoie to approach them
Tine Kfesa-back OF golden plovsr, . beautiful
elrd, comes next, some infiss nim wit q the
grass Glover, but he Is very different He SHOWS
UP sort Of xrseDisn- Oaok color at Q distance,
but near az hand ~ seen to be brown. lhsse
Ereen- backed blowers 90 In hocks, sometimes as
many ~ two hundred and NJ y together, ana 81
close In their dIgbs that 1 have often killed
fifteen or twenty Of them az single shot. In
the fdl Of tbs year there are frequeutl, seen .
sort Of ployers whico soms people call big
beGdtd plovers. but | have never clearly made
black breasts. They have enormously bis
heads, but that 10 about the only peculiarly
about them. Beet OF all are the flutes, snort,
chunky birds, always very fat, and eIcssdinsiy
nice ealing. They are always found In
psny with the green backed piovsr, and same
tims. cross with them, In fact hers Are nil
lures all through among the pinyers, the sume
as among the sniues. There is one more Kind
that did not mention. the brant r sire IL ed
backed piover, 40 named after toe rsse IN blancs
Of its markings to those Of the hrant duck.
HUNTING DUCK.
do We have many duck2 We'll, I should say
we had-duck aud branJ and geese. Why. tue
ar II thick with thsin, and they cover up the
water, IN season, which - from about tue l0tn
OF October until the mid lie uf Apnl. There are
about thirteen varieties of ducks common mere
At that time, Going up the list, did with
mean, worthless. hshy things. not worth mar
keeling. Next above them la size are the 0oots,
easily Killed. have Killed one s' Ssnarsa in ~
them In four hours and once twenty m twenty
can DO shot within twenty yards, In
market thew bring from six to twenty-five
csnts pair, accounting To their &c ircity. Line
sheldrake duck Ia = little larger than the coor.
but Is nsny, harlly eataDle, and not valued any
more tn "a tue oldsquaw. Inc broaduill Is u
good uur medium sized, and very numerous,
Yet IN old times We used % Kill ten Tor oAe
thit Is Killed now. 4 have killed three hun
drcd and twenty hIosdbiis from one rig Ia Il
single day. Why, have even snot sixty -three
OF them In a little over AN hour. | WAS Ia a
battery. my waddinu all gave CUT. and then |
shot my underj icRet away, and ia nav- shot
my shirt away too n The Jacket hadn't bssn bi.
enough to nod out. l WIS siilng them faster
than tue tender could pick tnsm up Once
shot twsnt,-two oroadbllls dead with only two
ana another time twelve With q sinal. narrsi'
hal wss counting simpIy tss a.ituai dead, not
the wounded, which wero subsequently found
or cot away, OF which there were a numoer
more. III tell on how came to yet so macy
~ single shots You eau toie ducks up rlxns to
an thing else that Is red, neariy req, aud
shake It IN the sedgs near the water, and II
there are any ducks near thsv will swim rignt
toward II. SO close up that their breasts viii
touch the shore Ii seems to f.scinate them,
anu when once YOU D4ve them close up you can
rise and TAX and cook your gun, and you
viii not scare them away. only keep the OBJECT
tltne. lnbt wall swim ArOun1 IN
circle, ~nd II you watch your cnaEcs aud let
drive wnsn you have a Int OF tnsm IN range you
can rake lhS biggest part OF the 0Ock. We call
that playing them In.
VOW TO ATTACK rnM.
81 have known thirty-thrse to he killed In
that was al one shot. with two Oarr-is. Inoss
not shot VIII ny away sho rt distsnce.Dut In half
An hOur can DO PLAYED IN Ia tue same way, and
80 on until the dock l. pretty uucn eIlerinin.L-
60: fouas Dirds are especially supJ-oi To DC
tnetn IN ftum a distance OF one hundred yifus
to the shore. A reddish cUlorsd dog, trained to
run backward aud r~ard along the bsa' IA, Is
excellent IL sttr.cI them. lhsir curiosity 10
know what he Is acting thai way for s.e.Ds ~
be TOO strong Tor them IL resist don't know
why II has toe ensct them wnion 1 have
stated, but 1t has Not color alone w,n attract
then, but motion with IL. Som.linss a
brown buffalo robe sh ken before tnsnl
Is as good as ANYTHING else, sud l have
kaown nock played IN with nothing hat .
ouncn VI dried brown s-a weed waved To and
no Ia the sedge. suppose the idea got
from the foIes. I've oeeu told Dy oid hunters
VINO b We seen II, that fox, seeing a hpck OF
ducks nsar snore, wall run Ia snd fro IL attract
them aud 80 play them In close enough 10 on
SKIP on W the woods with his prey. Tho broad
bills are less numerous now than they used TO
be, anu seldom venture 50 near shore, 50 don't
suppose that playing them IN Is much prscu.sd
nov. hut time WAS wuen l have seen not
lsas than Twenty-Five thousand broad blls on
the waters of Shinnecock by at Que time. rue
average price OF tbts variety Of duck In tho New
YORK market, OF lats ears, IA = been about nfty
cents ir. That Is what We get for tnen, I
mean. But I'm forgetting that I'm giving voua
lis OI the sort OF duck, We have here. Next to
tue brOaublls cane the black ducks, wnlcl
feed IN shOal water and do not dive Ike the
others. lbey haunt around the mead
ow. and on shallow nats- are very Wild.
aud one must hide very carefully to get
near enough TO them for a .hot. In
market they bring about 70 cents per pair. Tho
redheads, or red headed Drpadbllls, follow the
BLACK ducks IN size, Out are the superIvrs Of all
others found IN these waters 10 dclicacy Of
nsvor. Indeed they are considered almost
equal to the cany b ks, and rank next 10
them In puce, commandln. 81 a pair here, OUT
bringing a. much as $3.50 TO retail buyers III no
washington Market. Iney not wilder than
the br Iadbills. but mucn more scarce 80
that comparatively few Of Them are obtained.
PRICES IN MARKET.
"Of teal. all excellent duck. in good steady de-
mand by the lovers OF good eating In the city,
we have "A great many, hOth the bi Is-wlnged IN
summer and the red-winged In WINTER Nearly
a. We shoot 20 to private regular customers IN
the clti, and very few To market. Our prIce Is
ABOUT nfty cents per pair We nave some can
backs, but they are rather infrequent, and
are worth s. per pair when get tnein. Auch
more numerous with US are the gray and mall
lard duchs, worth respectively IS cents ana 81
per pair. We also have gOnd many wood
ducks aud wiugeOn. and, In winter time, lois OF
wblstlets-dll goa ana sAlsOle ducks. brant
nave been numerous here until the stupidity Of
our south Hampton neig ibOrs caused the cloa-