276 THE GROUSE 



Be the reason what it may, the fact 

 remains that while on some exceptionally 

 favoured moors a bird to an acre may be 

 killed in good years, others under the 

 best management and most favourable 

 conditions seem unable to yield a better 

 average than one bird to every four or five 

 acres. 



Yet the last thirty years have seen a 

 marked improvement on Lowland moors, 

 where better management and regular 

 driving have brought moors, which 

 formerly were but little thought of, to 

 rank only second to the best of those 

 across the Border. 



Some of the Welsh moors, too, have 

 improved to a great extent. Mr. J. G. 

 Millais, in his Natural History of British 

 Game Birds, supplies some interesting and 

 hitherto unpublished figures of Mr. Wynne 

 Corrie's ten years' tenancy of the Ruabon 

 mountains ; and as the pages of this 

 sumptuous volume are not accessible to 

 all, they may be given here : — 



