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At Hankow in May 1905, Mr. E. Byrne accounted for 28 couples in a short 

 morning with the left barrel alone ! the right lock getting out of order at the start. 

 Coincidences.— In the spring of 1 873, on the occasion of a ladies' picnic, not far from 

 Tungkadoo, six guns went out for an hour over the irrigated bean-fields for a crack 

 at the long bills. The guns, the late Sir Walter Medhurst, the present Sir Alfred 

 Dent, the late Messrs. E. Tobin, and H. R. Hearn, and Messrs. W. V. Drummond and 

 H. T. Wade, separated into couples, and it was found on an almost simultaneous 

 return, that each pair of guns had bagged 17 snipes, and that the individual scores 

 were all different. 



Messrs. H. Sonne, A. Ross and W. D. Little were shooting between Quinsan and 

 Taitsan on the 2nd and 3rd May this year (1895). The two days' sport resulted in 

 a bag of 99 couples of snipes, and it was found at the close of the second day that 

 each gun had killed 33 couples. 

 A Record. — Although not connected with local shooting, a snipe bag made by Messrs. 

 J. J. Bell-Irving, Gedge and Turner at Hongkong one day last September deserves 

 being noted. 



Mr. J. J. Bell Irving killed 76I couples. 

 „ Gedge 40 „ 



„ Turner 33 „ 



Total, I49i 

 Heavy Snipes. — In the spring of 1881 behind the kerosene oil godowns at Tungkadoo, 

 Mr. F. E. Haskell got amongst some spring birds : six couples, exhibited by him at 

 the Club the same evening, drew the scale at 6 lbs., thus giving an average weight to 

 each bird of 8 ounces. 



A Remarkable Occurrence. — On the 9th January, 1910, in the Haskell Road, Hongkew, 

 Mr. A. K. Henning, Municipal Tax Collector, on looking across a woodyard at the 

 back of his house saw " about one hundred snipes feeding on an empty piece of 

 ground." It took little time to collect gun and cartridges and within 5 minutes he 

 had picked up 14 birds. A result of his shot into the " brown " was that two of the 

 birds actually fell upon the house roof. In the evening he got four birds more which 

 made a grand total of 18 birds. The cold was intense at the time and the bird half 

 starved. But that the 18 birds were knocked over admits of no doubt. 



Mr. Henning adds in his note tome "can you beat that for snipe shooting ? " 

 I candidly confess ^' I can'C 



BAMBOO PARTRIDGES. 



The only three fair bags which I can with confidence place are \2}^ brace in 5 days 

 by Mr. Drummond Hay in the Maychee country in 1881, and 12 brace by Mr. N. E. Cornish 

 in the same district in February, 1897, and 10 brace by Mr. W. S. Jackson in the Kashing, 

 HaiE creek during the Christmas holidays 1909. 



In February 1898, in the Maychee Creek, Messrs, Hearson and Cornish's bag for 

 a week's shooting exclusive of pheasants, woodcocks, teal, snipes, quails, &c. : — 



was 39 partridges. 



