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and maize favour abundance of game, the 

 official returns show that close on a 

 million and a half partridges are annually 

 killed. Walking in line, with a drive 

 when the occasional fence is reached, is 

 the usual method adopted. 



The late Baron Hirsch managed the 

 shooting of his vast estates on such a 

 lavish scale as has never been attempted 

 elsewhere. In 1893 his picked team of 

 guns killed close on 50,000 partridges in 

 six weeks' shooting, Lord de Grey on 

 one occasion having 240 birds down in 

 one drive. On Count Karolyi's estates 

 at Tot Megyer ten guns killed 10,000 

 partridges in ten days, walking in line, 

 while in Bohemia a total of 4000 part- 

 ridges killed in a single day on the estates 

 of Prince Auersberg some years ago 

 seems never to have been since equalled. 



In the course of my inquiries about 

 shooting in Austria, a circular came to 

 hand, emanating from a " Bureau fur 

 Jagd - Commissionen " in Vienna, which 

 though it offered but little information 



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