2,o6 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



The specimens in the case were obtained in the 

 winter of 1902, when I was staying at Maelog- Lake 

 Hotel, near Tycroes, Anglesey, kept by Mr. Cottrell 

 — a man very fond of shooting — who rented a lot 

 of cultivated lands for his sporting visitors. My 

 reason for going to Anglesey was simply to get my 

 specimens in the best of plumage, which they do not 

 attain till the beo^innine of winter, and that was one 

 of the only places in the British Islands where I 

 might expect to get a shot at them over dogs. I 

 could never understand why they lie there and are 

 wild everywhere else. 



We were a jovial little party of three or four guns. 

 One of the guns, a Mr. Hampson, I got very 

 chummy with, and after staying at Cottrell's a week, 

 we went over to the Valley Hotel, near Holyhead, 

 where we had a few more days' shooting together. 



The birds you see in the case are the pick of our 

 combined efforts. 



The best Partridge shooting I ever had was in 

 Radnorshire, at Llanbadarn, where my brother-in- 

 law had some five or six thousand acres to go over. 

 There were many varieties of ground to shoot over, 

 from cultivated fields and moorland to small hills and 

 dales; the last named we used to term "dingles." 

 You had to work hard to get a decent bag, and as 

 there was hardly any flat ground at all — the 

 cultivated fields being on the slopes of the hill — 

 you experienced shots at all sorts of angles both 

 ascending and descending. One of the most trying 

 positions being when the covey had been run into 



