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Practical Game Preserving. 



diseases, of course, are very similar, if not identical ; but as 

 far as our experience goes, grouse disease proper is practi- 

 cally confined to the red grouse ; and although black game 

 sometimes die off in large quantities, still it is not always, 

 in fact very rarely, from "the epidemic" which decimates 

 the moor fowl of the Highlands and north of England 

 moors. In southern parts of the country, where no red 

 grouse exist, the black game sometimes suffer very con- 

 siderably from disease of a similar nature to that which, a 

 season or two back, played such havoc with the partridges. 



Though this game bird is one not easily poached, and 

 one which alone does not pay for being feloniously killed, 

 yet a good many are got by those who go in for hare 

 poaching and moor fowl snaring and netting. It is a bird 

 easily snared and easily trapped, where it exists in any 

 great number, and the latter practice is the more often 

 indulged in. 



