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GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



and Aberdeenshire ; and in England, Westmoreland, 

 Cumberland, and Northumberland — though they are 

 found here and there in almost every county in both 

 England and Scotland, having been shot in every county 

 from Caithness to Cornwall. I once saw near Aldershot a 

 Blackcock and a hansom cab within sio^lit at the same 

 time, and remember Ijeing rather amused at the occurrence. 



A GLEN IN WINTER, 



as one naturally associates the former with blue mountains 

 and silvery birch-w^oods, and the emblem of all that is 

 wild and free, whilst the latter goes wdth Piccadilly and 

 modern civilisation. Formerly, and up to a recent date, 

 good bags were made on Exmoor and the neighbouring 

 hills in Somersetshire. In that county a friend of mine 

 with another gun, on 1st September 1884, killed twenty- 

 seven brace ; but since that time there has been a marked 

 change for the worse in point of numbers. The New 



