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whole matter is more or less knack, and can easily 

 be acquired with plenty of practice, which is the 

 main thing; but to term it "barn door fowl" shoot- 

 ing is simple twaddle, and merely displays the 

 ignorance of the speaker who makes such a remark; 

 for in this sort of shooting you get Pheasants at all 

 sorts of different angles, ascending, descending, and 

 over-head, going at a great pace when there is a 

 little wind to help them. 



A man who has done nothino- but shoot over 

 dogs will probably find, when he first tries driven 

 Pheasants, that he has got something more than he 

 bargained for. 



The specimens in the case were shot on a private 

 estate of about 10,000 acres, belonging to Mr. 

 Campbell Davis, about five miles from Llandovery, 

 in Central Wales ; they were picked out of a lot I 

 got with the keepers belonging to the estate on the 

 different expeditions I made there when staying at 

 the Dolecoed Hotel, Llanwrytyd Wells, which also 

 was Mr. Campbell Davis's property. 



CASE 5L 



MAGPIE, JAY. 

 Order, Passeres. Family^ Corvidce. 



The Magpie. 

 This species is pretty generally distributed 

 throughout our islands, but its numbers (where 



