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GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



descend to the upland pastures, where they may l)e seen 

 sitting on the hhickthorn luishes, eating the red berries. 

 But in Scothuid and Irehind such are not their hahits, save 

 in verv severe winters, when their natural feedino^-ofrounds 

 are buried l)eneath the sm^w. and they are forced to come 



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■"E.MBAUHAS DE RICHESSES. 



to the low grounds to search for whatever they can pick up. 

 During the winter of 1880-81, when the Yorkshire Grouse 

 were driven into the farmyards and became so tame as to 

 feed with the poultry, many of the Inverness-shire birds 



1 The above incident happened to my In'othur in AljL-i-deen.sliire in 1887, 

 when a covey of Giouse, after being Hushed several times, eventually became 

 so confused as to take refuge in his butt. 



