Florida and the Game Water-Birds
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Florida and the Game Water-Birds
                                            
                            by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
                            
                                26 Mar, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        In preparing this work, after I had written the account of Florida, which, as a sporting country, had never been fully described, and was to occupy the principal part of my attention, and when I came to the second division, that relating to the game-
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                                                In preparing this work, after I had written the account of Florida, which, as a sporting country, had never been fully described, and was to occupy the principal part of my attention, and when I came to the second division, that relating to the game-birds of our waters and coasts generally, I found so much in a book on a kindred subject, which I had written years ago, that I concluded I could do no better than quote from it freely. The directions therein given are as correct now as then, the information as well founded, and I hope the reader will find the stories of sporting excursions as interesting. Less