SOME SHOOTING STATISTICS 



617 



98 



24,044 



51,497 



483 



920 



3,784 



16,519 

 190,858" 



Wild Boar . 



Chamois 



Mufflon 



Red Deer . 



Fallow Deer 



Roe Deer . 



Hares 



Rabbits 



Capercailzie 



Blackcock . 



Hazel-grouse 



A few days after receiving this letter the follow- 

 ing extract appeared, curiously enough, in the 

 columns of The Standard. I append it for the 

 sake of comparison. 



"The record of game killed by Earl de Gray 

 from 1867 to 1895 i s a most extraordinary one. 

 Between the dates mentioned his lordship has killed 

 316,699 head of game, his average during the last 

 twenty years being about 10,000 each year. His 

 record in 1893 was 19,135, composed as under: 

 8,732 partridges, 5,760 pheasants, 2,611 grouse, 

 837 hares, 914 rabbits, and nearly 300 various. Of 

 the total, 316,699, there are 111,190 pheasants, 

 89,401 partridges, 47,468 grouse, 26,747 rabbits, 

 26,417 hares, 2,735 snipe, 2,077 woodcock, 1,393 

 wild duck, 381 red deer, 186 deer, 97 pigs, 94 black 

 game, 45 capercailzie, 1 9 sambur, 1 2 buffaloes, 1 1 

 tigers, 2 rhinoceros, 8,424 various." 



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