VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



PAGE 



The Woodcock Summer and Winter Haunts De- 

 crease in England Erroneous Reason assigned The 

 true Cause suggested Slaughter on the Shores of the 

 Mediterranean and the Adriatic Clumber Spaniels 

 Colonel Parker's Notes Shooting Expeditions to the 

 Morea and Thessaly Kornupeli Aspect of the Country 

 Covers of Arbutus and Oleander Gulf of Salonica 

 Reflections on the preceding Account Protection recom- 

 mendedDistribution in the British Islands A Wood- 

 cock Battue in Ireland The Common Snipe The Soli- 

 tary Snipe. . . . . . . . .35 



CHAPTER IV. 



Severe Season of 1838, 1839 Winter Scene on the 

 Coast Preparations for an Expedition to Pagham Har- 

 bour Equipment Irish Water Spaniel Frozen Fish 

 Arrival at the Harbour Flocks of Waterfowl Wild 

 Swans Observation and Plan of Operations Mysterious 

 Object Formidable Rival Ambuscade Various species 

 of Wild fowl Suspense The Great Gun Off at last 

 Cripple Chace Retriever and wounded Swan The 

 Hero of the Gun-boat Return 56 



CHAPTER V. 



The Pheasant Care and Attention necessary for his 

 Increase and Welfare Tame Pheasants Outlying Nests' 

 Eggs Foster Mothers Barn-door and Bantam Hens 

 Food of the Chicks Ants' Eggs Best Mode of Col- 

 lecting them Out-of-door Management of the Young 

 Pheasants ( The Gapes' Prevention better than Cure 

 Singular Instance of its Malignity Origin of the Disease, 

 and consequent Inefficacy of ordinary Recipes Colonel 



