Identifier: americangameinit00herb (find matches)
Title: American game in its seasons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, G.E. Woodward (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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keeps a regular game-keeper on it; and is easily accessible from Quebec. Captain Peel makes up a party to go thither and fishannually, furnishing all appliances and means to boot,lodging, after forest fashion, in comfortable shanties;board of tlie best that can be obtained, including excellentport, sherry, and bottled ale; boats, men, everything inshort, rods only excepted, that is requisite to the genu-ine sportsman, at the very small price of $120 per month. The scenery of the Lower St. Lawrence is magnificent,the climate delicious, the fishing the finest in the world.The expense is ridiculously cheap as compared with theinducements offered, nor can I imagine a more delightfulor cheaper mode of passing a couple of summer monthsthan any sportsman can obtain by addressing CaptainPeel, Amherstburg, Canada West. VII.JULY. Cj)c ;.iucrit;iii Haokfltli Scolopax Minor. IFIE BLIND SNIPE; MUD SNIPE, &o. DURING THE SUMMER—CANADA TO VIRGINIA.iJLTRING THE WINTER—SOUTHERN STATES TO MEXICO
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THE AMERICAlSr WOODCOCK. Scolopax Minor. TuE American Woodcock, Scolopax minor, or, as ithas been subdistinguished by some naturalists, from tbepeculiar form of its short, rounded wing, the fourthand fifth quills of which are the longest, MicropteraAmericana, is, as the latter title indicates, exclusivelyconfined to this hemisphere and continent. It is muchsmaller than its European namesake, being very rarelykilled exceeding eight or nine ounces in weight, andsixteen inches in extent from tip to tip of the expandedwings; whereas the European cock averages full twelveounces, being often found up to fifteen, and measurestwenty-five or twenty-six inches. In general appearance and color they bear a consider-able affinity each to the other; the upper plumage ofboth being beautifully variegated, like the finest tortoise-shell, with wav)^ black lines on a rich brown ground,mottled in places with bright fawn color and ash-gray,but the breast and belly of the American bird are of adeep fulvous

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