Excerpt from Letters to Young Shooters (Third Series): Comprising a Short Natural History of British Wildfowl and Complete Directions in Shooting Wildfowl on the Coast and InlandThese drawings of sport with fowling-punt and stanchion-gun I have spread throughout the book rather than grouped them together in the few letters that treat of this subject. They can be easily referred to, each picture tells its own story, and is appropriate to the descriptions of the various Ducks and Geese.My thanks are especially due to my friend Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, of the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh, who has very kindly assisted me to revise the pages that treat of Natural History.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.