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[Illustration: ROBERT BARNWELL ROOSEVELT.]




                                FLORIDA

                                AND THE

                           GAME WATER-BIRDS

                                OF THE

          ATLANTIC COAST AND THE LAKES OF THE UNITED STATES,

                                 WITH

          A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SPORTING ALONG OUR SEASHORES
                   AND INLAND WATERS, AND REMARKS ON
                  BREECH-LOADERS AND HAMMERLESS GUNS.


                                  BY

                      ROBERT BARNWELL ROOSEVELT,

    AUTHOR OF “THE GAME-FISH OF NORTH AMERICA,” “SUPERIOR FISHING,”
        “FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH,” “ISMS,” “POLYANTHUS,” ETC., ETC.


                             ILLUSTRATED.

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                               NEW YORK:
                         ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
                             751 BROADWAY.
                                 1884.

    Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by the
                         ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,




PREFACE.


In preparing this work, after I had written the account of Florida,
which, as a sporting country, had never been fully described, and was to
occupy the principal part of my attention, and when I came to the second
division, that relating to the game-birds of our waters and coasts
generally, I found so much in a book on a kindred subject, which I had
written years ago, that I concluded I could do no better than quote from
it freely. The directions therein given are as correct now as then, the
information as well founded, and I hope the reader will find the stories
of sporting