150 GAME PRESERVEKS 'AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



killed as vermin by many people who know 

 what they are about. 



Gentlemen who do not want to shoot their 

 partridges until the end of September w^hen 

 they return from Scotland, would, we beheve, 

 nearly double their bag if they had all the first 

 nests taken and reared under hens. The ex- 

 pense is small, as these birds so soon get theii^ 

 own living. These tame reared birds would 

 hardly have joined the wild birds, and though 

 they w^ould be difficult enough to get near, 

 would scarcely behave as disgracefully as they 

 so generally do now ; and the wild birds would 

 nearly all lay again, and their young, though 

 quite strong by October 1, would not be so wild 

 as their first hatch. Partridges soon get shy. 

 We remember a lot of forty some years ago 

 which we thought we could bag any day we 

 pleased. But the first shot altered matters, and 

 we never bagged a bird till they came out of a 

 wood one day in December. 



Partridges and all game birds travel and fly 



