154 G.yHE PRESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



terrier would be required. A friend of ours 

 brought home a curious httle nondescript dog, 

 and when asked what it was, he always said, 

 ' it was the real tiger terrier of Central India,* 

 and it did not seem to occur to one person in 

 ten who asked the question, how ridiculous the 

 idea was that such a little creature could be 

 used against tigers. 



But it is at the Cape of Good Hope also 

 that some little knowledge of bird preserving is 

 really required, for that fine francolin called the 

 red-winged partridge, nearly as large as a 

 grouse, and as well behaved before dogs, is fast 

 disappearing from hundreds of miles of country. 

 In very many places, where twenty years ago 

 ten and twelve brace could be bagged at the 

 beginning of the season, they are now never seen. 

 Ammunition was scarce, and the farmers used 

 to reserve theirs for bucks, never wasting it on 

 birds ; and they had no dogs which would find 

 these partridges, which lie very close. Now, 

 officers have imported so many that there is 



