. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XVri. 5^^=.^^^^- CLAPPER-RAIL, OR MUD-HEN. RALLUS CREPITANS. NOMENCLATURE, ETC. UD-HENS, meadow-clappers, or big rails,(for by these appellations this fowl is morefamiliarly known to the coast-shooters,)r, are met with along our whole Atlanticboard, from the southernmost extremitiesof Florida even as far north as the NewEngland States. The clapper-rail is alarge bird, and affords at times consider-able sport to the shooter: the flesh, however, notwithstan
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER XVri. 5^^=.^^^^- CLAPPER-RAIL, OR MUD-HEN. RALLUS CREPITANS. NOMENCLATURE, ETC. UD-HENS, meadow-clappers, or big rails,(for by these appellations this fowl is morefamiliarly known to the coast-shooters,)r, are met with along our whole Atlanticboard, from the southernmost extremitiesof Florida even as far north as the NewEngland States. The clapper-rail is alarge bird, and affords at times consider-able sport to the shooter: the flesh, however, notwithstanding all the arts of the mditre de cuisine to the contrary, is universally 283
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