[Announcement.-The Sportsman's Magazine pays liberally for articles and illustrations of an acceptable character. If you have good matter for our pages, submit it.] Fo SHORE BIRD SHOOTING. BY WALTER DREW. OR those lovers of wild fowl shooting who have enjoyed it, there is perhaps no more fascinating sport than shore bird shooting, excellent facilities for which are enjoyed at many points along the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards of the United States. The season, opening as it does from July 15 and August 1, from the coast of Maine southward, offers the sportsman an opportunity for sport, midway between the closing of the Spring and the opening of the Fall shooting seasons, that is seized upon with avidity by the old shore bird shooter, and that is declared not only delightful shooting, but most excellent practice, by the "tenderfoot" who has hitherto been restricted to upland or Fall waterfowl shooting. The conditions and environments encountered by the shore bird shooter are of the pleasantest, from the sportsman's standpoint. Instead of the benumbed fingers and icy surroundings that make things interesting for the duck hunter, your shore bird shooter takes his seat upon a pile of yielding seaweed at the bottom of his blind, and with his meerschaum for a companion, pulls his hat over his eyes, and keeps a lookout over the heads of his decoys for the |