THE RED GROUSE. 



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at the approach of the fowler, this last mode of 

 capture is less profitable than might be imagined, 

 and it is certain that various stratagems are then 

 in vogue when, by the way, the keepers and 

 watchers are generally dismissed, instead of being 

 doubled as they ought to be for the London 

 market is regularly supplied, up to the middle 

 of March, with birds which exhibit no signs of 

 having perished from a gunshot wound, but have 

 evidently been procured by some of the numerous 

 contrivances of modern poaching. 



27 White-tailed sea eagles. 

 15 Golden eagles. 

 18 Osprey, or fishing eagles. 

 98 Blue hawks, or peregrine 



falcons. 

 275 Kites, commonly called 



salmon-tailed gledes. 

 5 Marsh harriers, or yellow- 

 legged hawks. 

 63 Goshawks. 



7 Orange-legged falcons. 

 11 Hobby hawks. 

 285 Common buzzards. 

 371 Rough-legged buzzards. 

 3 Honey buzzards. 



462 Kestrels, or red hawks. 

 78 Merlin hawks. 

 9 Ash-coloured hawks, or 



long blue-tailed ditto. 

 83 Hen-harriers, or ring- 

 tailed hawks. 

 6 Jer-falcon, toe-feathered 



hawks (?) 

 1431 Hooded, or carrion 



crows. 

 475 Ravens. 

 35 Horned owls. 

 71 Common fern owls.* 

 3 Golden owls.f 

 8 Magpies. 



* This, I imagine, was the short-eared owl (otus brachyotos.) 

 Surely not the insectivorous nightjar ! A.E.K. 



f Probably the white, or barn owl (strix flammed}. 



