60 



GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



and Aberdeenshire ; and in England, Westmoreland, 

 Cumberland, and Northumberland though they are 

 found here and there in almost every county in both 

 England and Scotland, having been shot in every county 

 from Caithness to Cornwall. I once saw near Aldershot a 

 Blackcock and a hansom cab within sight at the same 

 time, and remember being rather amused at the occurrence, 



A GLEN IN WINTER. 



as one naturally associates the former with blue mountains 

 and silvery birch-w r oods, and the emblem of all that is 

 wild and free, whilst the latter goes with Piccadilly and 

 modern civilisation. Formerly, and up to a recent date, 

 good bags were made on Exmoor and the neighbouring 

 hills in Somersetshire. In that county a friend of mine 

 with another gun, on 1st September 1884, killed twenty- 

 seven brace ; but since that time there has been a marked 

 change for the worse in point of numbers. The New 



