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perhaps, 100 yards, so that they may stretch in 

 line a long distance ; but when they are over 80 to 

 90 yards, very many of the birds will fly just out of 

 shot of everybody. 



In case it is compulsory to build the shelters at 

 90 to 100 yards from one another, with a view to 

 their commanding a wide extent of heather, it is an 

 excellent plan to put a small flag on a stick halfway 

 between each, as the birds will not notice the flags 

 from a distance, but will swerve aside as they ap- 

 proach them, and thus turn nearer to the guns than 

 they would otherwise have done (fig. 55, opposite). 

 Small stacks of peat or slabs of heather are sometimes 

 built for this purpose when the shelters are widely 

 distributed, but these are of little use, as the grouse, 

 being accustomed to their presence, do not turn from 

 them as they will from flags erected just before the 

 drive commences.* 



The shelters will have to be carefully placed on 

 ground over which the grouse, when flushed by the 

 drivers, will naturally pass in their flight to or from 

 parts of the moor they are in the habit of frequenting. 



On every moor there are particular tracts of 



* It is very important that the shelters on a grouse-driving moor 

 should be constructed several months before they are likely to be 

 used, and once they are built they should always be in position, so 

 that the birds, young and old, may be familiar with their appearance ; 

 they will not then shun them when tenanted by the shooters. 



