BLACKGAME 



THERE is no doubt, although every care and precaution 

 is taken by those who have it in their power to ensure 

 the protection and increase of this noble bird, that in 

 almost all parts of England and Scotland it is gradually 

 on the decrease. In a very few places, where they were 

 formerly comparatively scarce, they now exist in consider- 

 able numbers, but these spots are few and far between ; 

 and the fact of the state of the ground having become in 



