PREFACE 



In sending forth the second edition of these Shooting- 

 Sketches the Author has not found it necessary to make 

 any material alterations beyond the withdrawal of the 

 coloured plates which w^ere to be found in the first edition. 

 This not only has the eff'ect of reducing the original price 

 of the work considerably, but also allows it to be reissued 

 in a simpler and handier form for sportsmen and natural- 

 ists generally. 



The success of the first edition and requests of my 

 friends who were not in a position to obtain the first 

 edition, combined with a growing taste in the British 

 pul^lic for specialistic literature both in sport, art, and 

 ornithology, have induced me to produce the book in its 

 present form ; and with all the newest forms of process- 

 illustrations I trust that the l)ook will give as much 

 pleasure to the reader as it has given me in its compilation. 



J. a MILLAIS. 



