44 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



hares. The partridges were of two kinds, the 

 grey and the common brown. 



" We descended again to the level of a small 

 river, and shot along the line of it ; a succession 

 of wild, rushy, small covers in which we found 

 our great variety of shooting. Pheasants, wood- 

 cocks, snipes, wild ducks, teal, all in the air at the 

 same time. Neither the pheasants nor wood- 

 cocks differ in appearance or plumage from the 

 English. We fancied the pheasants were drier 

 than ours from want of good feeding, hut we 

 invariably put them into soup, and had there- 

 fore no fair trial of what a plain roasted one might 

 have proved. The whole day we shot in sight of 

 Pelion, Ossa, and Olympus. 



"Our expedition into the interior did not 

 answer our expectations, as the extracts from the 

 journal will show. In fact we got among such 

 large strong blackthorn covers that we could not 

 work through them ourselves, neither would the 

 Clumber spaniels face them, and I suspect that 

 without * stops' the Thessalian pheasants run as 

 fast as the British. Three guns had again a very 

 good day on their return to the yacht. As far as 

 our experience went the shooting was always best 

 nearest to the shore, and it is better not to go far 

 inland. On the 3d of February we got under 

 weigh for the Vardar river, where we were told 



