234 SHOOTING THE DUCK AND THE GOOSE 



amounted to 2,727. In recent years, 1901 showed a 

 short period of favourable weather in January and 

 a week in February, which may be quoted as a fair 

 sample of what may be done at Veere : 



1900-01 



These birds were killed in twenty days' shooting 

 from a single -handed punt, and seven of the best shots 

 produced 163 wild-fowl. 



The avifauna of Holland includes practically every 

 kind of goose and surface-feeding ducks, besides the 

 diving and sea ducks and smaller fry in the shape of 

 waders and shore birds. The Berwick swan, Mr. 

 Pike says, he has never met with ; but the Hooper and 

 Scandinavian swans are, in severe winters, seen together 

 in large herds when the Danish lagoons and the 

 Zuider Zee are frozen up. Among the grey geese 

 the bean and pink-footed species are the most 

 numerous, and he has obtained as many as 48 pink- 

 footed geese with the punt-gun in one day, 26 

 falling to one discharge. 



On the Haring Vliet estuary, which is almost 



