240 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEY. 



shot. Most of the birds were killed dead though generally flying at a tremendous 

 height. This is proof positive that the l2-bore properly loaded and held straight is 

 almost equal to the larger bores. 



The bag was made up of : — 



176 geese 

 38 ducks 

 56 teal 

 43 snipes 

 151 pheasants 

 1 woodcock 

 1 hare 



Total, 466 head. 



Another Goose J5i2^.— Near "Deep Hole, Newchwang in September 1899, Messrs. W. J. Lister 

 and A. J. E. Allen of the I. M. Customs bagged between daylight and noon one day 

 68 geese. 

 Lucky days. — On the Ningpo Lakes Mr. T. R. Jernigan, late U. S. Consul General and friend 

 shot from punts in the reed beds in 2 days : — 



120 ducks 

 30 geese 

 It was the largest bag ever made by any two guns on the lakes within so short a 

 time, and a pleasing feature was that the count to each gun was practically the same. 



SNIPES. 

 Some Good Bags. — In April 1872 at Sankongkeu, about 140 // up the Soochow Creek, the 

 late Mr. Montague Hawtrey bagged 51 couples of spring snipes with a muzzle-loading 

 Joe Manton. 



In the spring of 1876 Mr. E. O. Arbuthnot killed 42I couples of snipes, and three 

 pigeons in the Kajow Creek. He writes: "I never saw snipes so thick: they were in 

 every field, no matter what crop was growing, and I am confident that I could have 

 made a 'record bag' on that occasion had I only taken more ammunition with me." 



At Hankow in 1880, Mr. A. L. Robertson killed 27 couples of snipes before 10.30 

 A.M. on one occasion, and 20 couples in 2| hours one afternoon. 



Mr. Drummond Hay records two good days' bags of 43 couples and 57 couples 

 spring birds, up the Soochow Creek, and a third kill of 21 winter snipes in 22 shots. 



On the margin of the Tahu, in March 1884, Mr. Douglas Jones, shooting with the 

 late Mr. G. W. Coutts, killed, between noon and 1. 30 P.M., to his own gun, 47 winter 

 snipes, one spring bird and four teal. 

 Extraordinary Bags. — The two best bags in a single day's shooting were made at Kaotzu, 13 

 miles from Chinkiang on the way to Nanking by 



Mr. L. Rocher 8 May 1893— lOl couples 



Mr. A. J. E. Allen. 6 „ 1894— 100 „ 

 Other good individual bags are those of 



Mr. A. J. E. Allen. 3 May 1895—62 couples 



14 „ 1898—39 ,, 

 These bags were made at the Seven Mile Creek at Hankow. 



