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SMALL GAME SHOOTING. 



We also had good duck shooting in the Indian corn stubbles ; 

 these stubbles were peculiar, the grain was planted on the 

 margin of tanks or artificial lakes so common in India ; when 

 the periodical rains set in before the grain was ripe the fields 

 became flooded, and on the grain ripening the cultivators cut 

 off the corn heads, leaving the high stalks. Duck and snipe 

 collect in these fields and afford first rate sport. 



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THE LESSER FLORIKIN (Syfheotldcs auritus). 



