304 TOUR IN SUTHERLANDSHIRE. 



The wolf and dog of the Arctic regions resemble each 

 other so much in appearance as to induce casual observers to 

 suppose that they are very nearly the same animal ; but, 

 notwithstanding this likeness, there seems to be the most 

 deadly and relentless warfare carried on between the two 

 animals. 



The fox has in my opinion far less right than the wolf to 

 claim affinity to the dog ; at least the relationship must be 

 much more remote. 



GAME-DEALERS. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Poulterers' Shops Supply of Game Red Deer Deer killed in the Fields- 

 Roe Grouse aud Black Game ; calling of Shooting Hares by night 

 Pheasants Advantages attending the sale of Game by the fair Sports- 

 man and the Landed Proprietor American Game- Wild Fowl in Shops 

 Bird Dealers in Leadenhall Market Norway Game Manner of collect- 

 ing Hybrids Introduction of new species of Game into Britain Pro- 

 lific Birds Sea-fowl ; their breeding-places Solan Geese Migration of 

 Fish. 



IN these railroad-days, when carriage is so cheap and ex- 

 peditious, the poulterers' and gamedealers' shops in most of 

 the large towns of England and Scotland are supplied with 

 game of every description in quantities that are quite 

 astonishing. Red deer and roebucks are to be bought every- 

 where, and, I am sorry to say, at nearly all seasons. Having 

 easy communication and constant dealings and interchanges 

 with each other, the poulterers are able to supply to their 

 customers almost any kind of game which may be asked for. 



A red deer killed in Perthshire or Argyleshire, by the 

 assistance of railway or steamboat is in Liverpool or Man- 

 chester long before he has been sufficiently kept to suit the 

 palate of a civic epicure ; and the poacher has such facilities 

 in getting rid of his killed game that half the risk of his 

 occupation is gone. The stag is scarcely cold before it is 

 whisked off two counties away. 



Considerable numbers of red deer are killed in the neigh- 

 bourhood of preserved places and forests during the winter 

 season. When his natural grazing becomes scarce, a stag, if 



