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" Forfarshire. — Disease amongst the Grouse did at one time 

 appear, but the birds are now in perfect health. It is impressing 

 itself on gamekeepers that there is a want of uniformity in the 

 numbers of Grouse, and that consequently there will be more light 

 bags than was expected a few weeks ago. All other kinds of game 

 are a full average. 



" A Glenesk correspondent states that there is every indication 

 that there will this season be splendid sport on the extensive shoot- 

 ings belonging to Lord Dalhousie in this glen. On the lower grounds 

 the Grouse are fully an average of former years, while on the higher 

 parts they are more plentiful than they have been since 1872. 



" Inverness-shire. — Last year was one of the best Grouse years 

 lately known, and from all that can be learned, there is reason to 

 believe that the coming season will, on the whole, considerably 

 surpass that of 1879. The Grouse disease has been reported in 

 several quarters — notably at Kingussie, Glen Mazeran, Cawdor, 

 and one or two other places. But, among those who have made 

 the breeding of Grouse a special study, there can be no surprise at 

 these traces of disease existing, and reported in a year such as the 

 present. There is apparently no reason to doubt that 1880 will 

 be a red-letter one in the annals of the Grouse shooter. 



" Lanarkshire. — -The reports coming from the various moors in 

 the Carluke district are of a very favourable nature, and promise 

 good sport on the Twelfth. The birds entered on the pairing 

 season in excellent condition, there having been plenty of food 

 for them throughout the winter, and incubation was carried 

 through very successfully. 



" Orkney. — Sport in the Orkney Islands will be much better 

 than usual. The dry spring and summer have been favourable for 

 hatching, and the young birds are numerous, strong, and healthy 

 — in fact, by the first day of the shooting season they will be too 

 strong and wild. There are no symptoms of disease. 



" Peeblesshire. — The sportsmen in the neighbourhood of Biggar 

 have good prospects for the Twelfth. Grouse are reported 

 ' plentiful, strong, and wild.' 



" Per tli shire. — The prospects of sport on the moors of Perthshire 

 are better this season than they have been for a good many years 

 past. On the Rannoch moors the sport will be good, except upon 

 a few moors where, curiously enough, the breeding was later than 

 usual, such as Remony. 



