94 PHEASANTS 



that pheasants were rare at Bel voir it 1803. 

 Twenty years later the first regular re- 

 cords of shooting begin to appear. In 

 those times it was the fashion to credit 

 each gun with his exact contribution to 

 the total, a practice since universally dis- 

 countenanced as liable to lead to jealousy 

 among the guns, the most unpleasant 

 feature — save only shooting actually 

 dangerous to life and limb — that there can 

 be in any shooting party. 



"Better a pheasant missed than a 

 pheasant shared," says the adage in the 

 gunroom at Sandringham. Thus, still at 

 Belvoir, we have the modest totals of 

 early shoots recorded in this wise. 



31st December 1825, Barcheston Wood 



H.R.H. The Duke of York 



The Duke of Rutland 

 Mr. Norman . 

 Lord C. Manners 

 Lord R. Manners . 

 Mr. D'Ewes Coke . 



10 pheasants ^ 

 1 woodcock 

 4 pheasants U^ 



nneasants > ^ ■, 



2 pheasants 

 4 pheasants 

 2 pheasants 

 1 woodcock 



2 woodcocks. 



Ten years later again we find the totals 

 increasing, and in the same wood on 



