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oft talked-of Snipe-shooting match, the particulars 

 of which are so interesting that I give them in full. 



" CORK, May 30^, 1881. 



" DEAR , 



" Several years since a bet was made by a 

 friend of mine that my brother and I would shoot 

 more Snipe in a day than any two others that could 

 be named, each party to select the country they 

 wished to shoot over, and both to shoot on the same 

 day. A day early in the month of November was 

 fixed. My brother and I went to the neighbour- 

 hood of Dunmanway (the day was very mild and 

 fine, and we shot over dogs), and bagged fifty-nine 

 and a half couple (119 birds). 



" I got thirty-seven and a half, and my brother, 

 who could not walk well, twenty-two couple. The 

 other party did not kill so many, and we won the bet. 

 This was a good bag for two guns, but nothing 

 wonderful, and I have heard of much larger being 

 made. 



" Yours, 



"W. H. TOWNSEND." 



Mr. J. Butler, of Waterville, co. Kerry, has 

 kindly shown me his game list for 1 880-81, as an 

 example of what is done in his district in a good 

 season. Total for two guns, four hundred and 

 thirty-five head, consisting of one hundred and fifty- 

 six Snipe, one hundred and thirty-four Woodcock, 

 fifty-two Duck and Teal, forty-one Plover, twenty- 

 nine Grouse, and twenty-three Hares. This shoot- 

 ing is in an open and a very wild part of the country, 



