288 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEY. 



He was shooting near Pejow in 1874 in company with Mr. W. de St. Croix. His 

 individual bag was — 



On 15th January — 53 plieasants 



3 deer 



2 ducks 



2 teal 

 1 hare 



On 16th „ 29 pheasants 



4 ducks 



3 deer 



1 teal 



On 17th J, 70 pheasants 



2 deer 

 1 duck 



Total for 3 days, 171 head. 



A Couple of Good Days. — Mr. Robert Gore-Booth writes to me that in the autumn of 1872 

 he was shooting in the Kintang country. His boat was in the Tanyang Creek, 

 about two miles North of the small town of Tayinjow, Starting one morning at 

 9 o'clock he returned at noon with il brace of pheasants. The crops were heavy 

 and he had no dog, and he thinks he must have left at least 5 brace of birds on the 

 ground, shot but not bagged. In the afternoon he worked from I to 4 o'clock, when he 

 was compelled to give up shooting by reason of the breaking of his gun, or he would 

 undoubtedly have been able to give, as the cream of the shooting is generally after 

 that hour, a very much better account of himself. As it was, he succeeded in adding 

 9^ brace to his bag, and 3 couple duck and teal. He shot with No. I size shot; 

 no dog, and the ground was heavily cropped. Bag — 41 pheasants, 6 fowl. With a 

 borrowed gun, and using No. 2 and 3 shot, he bagged the next day II brace of 

 pheasants in the morning, and 7^/2 brace in the afternoon, besides a few teal — all 

 without dog. Bag — 37 pheasants, 6 teal. He adds that the ground covered by him 

 was on the West side of, but quite close to, the Tanyang Creek, and that it would not 

 have exceeded a square mile in area. Total bag — 78 pheasants, 12 duck and teal. 



Good Steady Shooting. — From the 5th to 29th January, 1871, Messrs. H. G. Phipps and 

 F. Leyburn were shooting principally in the Pintahu Creek and in the Canal country, 

 and made a grand total of 965 head. Except for food they did not fire at teal. 

 Mr. H. G. Phipps's bag was made up of 422 pheasants, 45 duck, 13 deer, 16 teal, 

 I hare ; but for 13 days, that is from 17th to 29th, he could only shoot with one barrel, 

 in consequence of having broken the second hammer. IVIr. F. Leyburn's return was 

 428 pheasant, 26 duck, 13 deer, i teal — a total of 468 head. 



A Fair Day at4he Ningpo Lakes. — On the 15th Januar}', 1892, Mr. A. J. Allen shot here : — 



12 pheasants 

 11 ducks 

 2 geese 



Total, 26 head. 



