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with doos is allowed only after the 1 5th September, and pheasants and 

 bitr oame (red, fallow and roe deer) are shot from the ist October. 

 Partridge and grouse shooting end about the 15th November. 

 Rabbit shooting over dogs or in battues, in the woods or on the 

 sand - dunes, is allowed all the year round. Waterfowl in the 

 marshes or along the streams and rivers may be shot until the 

 15th April; and hunting closes about the same time. 



I._HUNTING 



It cannot be said that Belgium is particularly adapted to the 

 sport of hunting, for areas under cultivation, as well as impenetrable 

 forests of firs, continually arrest the further progress of the hunt. 

 Notwithstanding these obstacles, however, we have one or two first- 

 rate packs. 



The Barons de Crawhez keep a mixed pack at Bievre, with which 

 they hunt big game and often the fox ; and they have also a second 

 pack of beagles for hare hunting. 



The " Societe de Chasse " of Viel Salm (which is supported by 

 MM. de Sincay, de Rosee, del Marmol and others) owns a pack of 

 foxhounds, which hunt the fox and boar twice a week ; and there 

 is a pack of harriers for the hares. All the dogs in this kennel 

 must be replaced, for, as I write this, several cases of distemper have 

 appeared, and it has been decided to destroy the entire pack. 



The oldest-established pack of harriers in Belgium, the Rallye- 

 Waereghem, celebrated its jubilee of fifty years in 1896. Its dogs are 

 of French origin, and have the reputation for very keen scent. 



