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pretty bag of mixed game. One of the chief features of 

 this visit was the fact that the thirty- two ptarmigan were 

 all killed by driving, for, on reaching our ground on the 

 summit of Malhuich, about eight miles from Glen Tromie, 

 we found that the morning had changed from a warm, 

 still one, to a very cold, windy, cloudy day, rendering the 

 ptarmigan so wild that it was quickly clear it was of no 

 use walking them up in line. Therefore we tried to drive 

 them, and in this way we got sixteen brace, and from 

 what I then saw, I am sure that these birds could be 

 successfully driven after making a careful observation of 

 the flights usually taken when they were disturbed. 



Returning south, there followed in October three good 

 days at Charlecote ; and on the 19th, Spencer Lucy, with 

 his brother Berkeley, George Granville, Frank Dugdale, 

 and myself, had a good bag of 161 head, made up of 

 2 outlying fallow does, 47 partridges, 15 pheasants, 92 

 rabbits, 2 ducks, and 3 various. The next day, being 

 minus Granville, but plus Colonel Paulet and Archie 

 Drummond, we got 178 head, in much the same mixed 

 proportions. 



