. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . A TARPON. HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. To those who do not desire to rough it, but wish to have anoccasional outing with the gun and dog, Florida offers the ratherunusual combination of very good sport in the immediate vicinityof comfortable hotels. ^ From Jacksonville it is but a short distance to the mouth of theSt. Johns River; and in the vicinity of Pilot Town, and Mayport,. A POINT ON QUAIL. and about Fort George Islands, fair bird shooting may be had at theright season. Plover and yellow-leg
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . A TARPON. HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. To those who do not desire to rough it, but wish to have anoccasional outing with the gun and dog, Florida offers the ratherunusual combination of very good sport in the immediate vicinityof comfortable hotels. ^ From Jacksonville it is but a short distance to the mouth of theSt. Johns River; and in the vicinity of Pilot Town, and Mayport,. A POINT ON QUAIL. and about Fort George Islands, fair bird shooting may be had at theright season. Plover and yellow-legs abound during the migrations,and in the old days Talbot Island was an especially good place forcurlew. With good dogs and a guide who knows the country, fairbags of quail and snipe may be made within easy driving distanceof either Jacksonville or St. Augustine. A few bears and deer stilllinger in the swamps between Jacksonville and Pilot Town, but for 80 HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. this kind of shooting oneshould go farther Southinto a more unsettledcountry. Qiiail a r e abundantthroughout Florida. Thebest quail shooting whichI have e\er enjoyed Ihad at what is known asDago Prairie, about fif-teen miles from Enter-prise, on the St. JohnsRiver. Enterprise at one TOM time was noted for its quail-shooting. On one occasion, using three dogs, I found fourteencoveys, and killed eighty-two birds with a twenty-gauge gun, reach-ing the hotel before dark. This occurred sever
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