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GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES 



descend to the upland pastures, where they may be seen 

 sitting on the blackthorn bushes, eating the red berries. 

 But in Scotland and Ireland such are not their habits, save 

 in very severe winters, when their natural feeding-grounds 

 are buried beneath the snow, and they are forced to come 



"EMBARRAS DE RicHESSES." 1 



to the low grounds to search for whatever they can pick up. 

 During 1 the winter of 1880-81, when the Yorkshire Grouse 



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were driven into the farmyards and became so tame as to 

 feed with the poultry, many of the Inverness-shire birds 



1 The above incident happened to my brother in Aberdeenshire in 1887, 

 when a covey of Grouse, after being flushed several times, eventually became 

 so confused as to take refuge in his butt. 



