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FRANK FORESTER'S FIELD SPORTS. 



THE UPLAND SHOOTING 



EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES, AND OF THE 

 BRITISH PROVINCES. 



PLAND SHOOTING, which, 

 with the interval of about three 

 months in ordinary seasons, may- 

 be enjoyed in some form or other 

 during the whole 'year, in the 

 Eastern and Middle States, may 

 be divided with propriety into 

 four diflerent heads, commencing 

 with the opening of spring, and terminating only with the termi- 

 nation of the year. 



These heads are " Spring Snipe Shooting ;" " Summer Cock 

 Shooting;" " Upland Plover Shooting;" and " Autumn Shoot- 

 ing," which might be called " general shooting," inasmuch as in 

 the course of a good day's sport, it is by no means unusual to 

 bring to bag almost every variety of game which I have enume- 

 rated above, the Grouse and the Northern Hare alone excepted. 

 A separate head must be given to Grouse shooting, — by which 

 I mean Pinnated Grouse ; since they are so nearly extinct in 

 those districts in which alone Upland Shooting is practised sci- 

 entifically and as a sport, that they are rarely, I might say never 

 met with, by those in pursuit of other game. 



It will be observed that I am now speaking of Upland shoot- 

 ing, as it is ; both established by law, and habitually practised, 



