SHOOTING IN SUSSEX. 161 



LETTER XV. 



" It is the rarity and difficulty of attainment of a bird 

 that renders the acquisition of it desirable to the true sports- 

 man." OAKLEIGH SHOOTING CODE. 



Shooting in Sussex compared with that in other Countries 

 The Black Grouse Its Decline The Pheasant 

 Ring-necked Pheasant Probable Origin Pied Va- 

 riety Whether to be encouraged or not The Phea- 

 sant the Farmer's Friend The Common Partridge 

 Red-legged Partridge The Quail Partridge- 

 shooting on the Hills View from the Downs 

 Pheasant-shooting in the Weald Woodcock-shooting 

 on the Downs A Day's Wild Sport. 



NORFOLK may boast of her battues ; her woods 

 teeming with hares and pheasants ; her flat mono- 

 tonous turnip-fields, where a shooting party can 

 march backwards and forwards all day, and slaugh- 

 ter their hundreds of partridges without ever quit- 

 ing the same enclosure. Scotland and Wales have 

 their steep mountains and craggy glens, their 

 grouse and woodcocks ; and Ireland her trackless 

 bogs, wide-spreading loughs, and unrivalled snipe 



