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nor exposure makes them attractive for 

 pheasants to live in. There are of course 

 occasional districts where the natural 

 features of the ground make high birds in- 

 evitable, and any special provision for their 

 production unnecessary : of such are the 

 west country coombes, the steep hillsides 

 of Wales, the glens of Scotland, and 

 the Yorkshire dales. In such favoured 

 countries we may shoot the pheasants in 

 the woods they live in without any fear 

 of unduly low birds : but they are the 

 exception, and as a general rule the scene 

 of the covert- shoot is laid among the 

 gently undulating surroundings of the 

 typical English park or Scots policies. 



We have, therefore, two definite and 

 distinct kinds of covert necessary under 

 ordinary conditions to the successful con- 

 duct of a pheasant-shoot. First of the 

 game -coverts proper, as opposed to 

 coverts for shooting facilities only, of 

 which more anon. In position these 

 should be sheltered and central, the 

 stronghold of the pheasants. They 



