Excerpt from Feathered Game of the Northeast The writer is aware that there are many excellent bird books, but while most of these are of wider scope, either covering the broad field of general ornithology or dealing with the entire bird life of a large area of country, there are few which treat solely of the groups of special interest to sportsmen, - especially to the sportsmen of New England. This work is devoted to the so-called "game birds," and while the authors intent has been to write of them to the man whose nature study has been conducted in the open and mostly over a gunbarrel, it is his hope that all lovers of the birds and the out-of-doors, and even the scientific ornithologist as well, may find his page of interest and profit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.