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acquire habits peculiar to the class of ground, habits 

 which, if you observe them, you can turn greatly to 

 the advantage of your driving. They select rather 

 bare and rocky spots for their alighting and sur veying 

 places, and when disturbed from basking or feedi ng 

 on lower and more sheltered ground they fly to these, 

 and almost always by the same route, according to the 

 wind. I have had a very fine drive with hardly a bit 

 of heather near me, surrounded by frowning precipices 

 and huge boulders, and sheltered by a butt formed ot 

 the great stones scattered in profusion all over the 

 upper slopes of the hill. 



Again, when grouse are pushed, as they often can 

 be, across a deep ravine or narrow glen, soaring high 

 over the low birch scrub and bracken, haunts of the 

 black-game and the roe, you will see if you watch them 

 carefully but very carefully that they only alight in 

 certain spots on the opposite hill, or that, having a 

 rough and rocky ridge to pass over, they invariably 

 select certain passes or gullies to rush through to the 

 same resting place. 



Here is your chance. Your batteries must be 

 carefully placed just behind, not on the ridge, each 

 one preferably in a slight hollow or pass rather than 

 on a knoll, and you will be surprised at the result. 

 Unlike the typical grouse ground as this spot may 



