LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



Brought forward 

 Grouse .... 

 Black-game (mostly old cocks) 

 Partridges 

 Pheasants 



Hares .... 

 Snipe (chiefly to own gun) 

 Duck, widgeon, teal, and golden plover 



(chiefly to own gun) . 

 Woodcock . ... 



Various (jays, wood pigeons, &c.) 

 Salmon and grilse (mostly to own rod) 

 Rabbits 



211 



9,394 



983 



10,394 



33,710 



3,340 



1,079 



485 

 359 

 647 

 601 

 15,374 



76,577 



With regard to roe bucks, ptarmigan, black-game, and 

 woodcock, these numbers could be very largely added to 

 by going back a further ten years, during which decade 

 I shot every season on the Lochnell shootings, near Oban, 

 which were then rented as a whole by my good friend 

 the late James Virtue. Extending over some 55,000 

 acres, which included some 12,000 acres of cover, it 



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