34 GAME PRESERVERS AKD BIRD TRESERVERS. 



else to depend upon in severe winters besides 

 the v^ild frost-bitten heatlier. It is by feeding 

 them highly, not by getting them destroyed 

 by birds of prey, that we shall preserve them 

 in health through the w^inter. and in a fit 

 state to rear large and healthy broods in the 

 spring. 



We have seen the wood-pigeon increase in 

 countless thousands because he can obtain in 

 winter food which his ancestors never tasted. 



We must educate our grouse to a more 

 liberal diet in this nineteenth century. They 

 will eat corn greedily when they can get it, 

 which is only for a little while in the autumn 

 and in a few places. We have shot grouse 

 both on the Lammermuir Hills and in Ireland, 

 coming regularly to the stubbles every evening 

 in the end of October, when we wanted some 

 and they could not be approached in any. other 

 way. The black grouse come regularly to our 

 corn-fields, but with them it is an acquked 

 taste. In the Austrian Tyrol, where the tail 



