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recorded. Last season eight guns had in 

 one day 553 brace of grouse, on another 

 day 463 brace, and on a third day 650 

 brace. Other moors in Scotland, though 

 they may not rival those of Moy Hall 

 in productiveness, yield in all ordinary 

 seasons great numbers of grouse and 

 other game. For example, in 1889 six 

 guns obtained from Corrour in Inverness- 

 shire, in the brief period from 12th August 

 to 7th September, 4000 grouse and 445 

 head of other game. Nor was this a 

 solitary performance on Corrour. This 

 fine shooting is now the property of 

 Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., and 

 during the twenty years or thereby of 

 his ownership it has been one of the 

 most carefully managed moors in Scot- 

 land, and year after year has yielded, in 

 the absence of disease, enormous grouse 

 results. 



These great harvests of grouse are only 

 obtained, it must be said, where driving 

 of grouse to guns is exclusively or mainly 

 practised. The merits of this system, as 



