318 PARTRIDGES 



partridges, killed off 2000 acres in twenty 

 drives to eight guns, remains the best day 

 on record. 



Outside Great Britain there is fair 

 partridge-shooting in Northern Europe. 

 In Germany the usual method is to shoot 

 over a dog a versatile animal who, to 

 quote Baron Schonberg, 



must act as bloodhound on the trail of a wounded 

 roe in summer, retrieve ducks in the water, and 

 act as a spaniel for woodcock and snipe. In 

 September he must take no notice whatever of 

 hares, while two months later he must hunt down 

 all wounded hares and retrieve them without 

 noticing partridges. 



Ninety brace have been shot by one 

 gun over dogs, and at Gross Strehlitz 

 Count Renard has killed 300 brace by 

 driving. 



In the rich cultivated plains of Flanders, 

 Brabant and Hainault, Belgian sportsmen 

 shoot their partridges over dogs, 50 

 brace to a single gun not being unknown. 

 In Holland the partridges suffer rather 

 an ignominious fate, their eggs together 

 with those of every other bird, rare and 



