AUTUMN SHOOTING. 



WITH the latter days of October or the beginning of No- 

 vember, quail-shooting, as it is termed every where to the 

 eastward, and partridge-shooting every where to the west- 

 ward, of the Delaware, commences. 



Woodcock are still abundant on the proper grounds, 

 particularly among hanging woods of second growth, of 

 chestnut interspersed with evergreens, on the hill-sides, 

 adjacent to water, and in low level maple swamps and 

 alder thickets. 



On different ground, but still on the same ranges, on 

 the higher slopes, where there is a mixture of crags and 

 cedar brakes, with deciduous trees and cultivated buck- 

 wheat fields and corn stubbles, the ruffed grouse is fre- 

 quently to be found. 



