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what I have seen of the place when shooting there — 

 as I have had the honour to upon several occasions 

 of late years — I fancy birds are not so plentiful as 

 they used to be in the General's time. Still it is 

 a fine *^ shoot." Other great places in this district 

 for partridges can be mentioned in Stitchworth 

 and Dullingham — which combined make a grand 

 partridge manor, and are now shot over by Lord 

 Ellesmere — Cheveley Park, and Chippenham Park. 

 Other wonderful grounds to be found in the 

 eastern counties are Elvedon, Holkham, Euston, 

 Sudbourne, Houghton, Sandringham, Rendlesham, 

 &c. Then in Hampshire there is the renowned 

 Grange, where Lord Ashburton has made the 

 record bag for these birds, and there are several 

 other places in this part of England where great 

 sport is obtained at the present day : but nowhere 

 has partridge shooting improved so much as in 

 Nottinghamshire, notably at those neighbouring 

 estates, Welbeck and Rufford Abbeys. Upon the 

 former last year the Duke of Portland and his 

 friends killed, one day, 627 brace of partridges. 

 The reason why these birds have increased so 

 immensely in England during the past few decades 

 is undoubtedly to be sought in driving, by which, 

 especially early in the season, the old birds are 

 killed off, and the younger and consequently less 

 quarrelsome ones left, when the nesting season 

 comes round, to carry on the race. It is also, 

 however, largely due to the greatly increased care 

 taken in changing eggs, putting down Hungarians, 



