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Mr. Wilson also held the record previous to this 

 day viz. 2,626 grouse, killed at Broomhead on 

 September 6, 1872, by thirteen guns, including the 

 late Mr. J. W. Rimington Wilson, one of the finest 

 shots and most accomplished men of his time, and his 

 two sons, who took outside places all day. The most 

 recent record, as given above, to nine guns, is of course 

 by far the more remarkable of the two. 



Here, again, are some of the results of the well- 

 known Wemmergill moor, kindly furnished me by 

 Lord Westbury, who has rented it almost ever since 

 Sir Frederick Milbank gave it up. He says : ' For 

 the last seven years this moor, which is under 12,000 

 acres, has yielded an average of over 6,000 birds a 

 year ; this period includes two very bad seasons viz. 

 1891, when only 1,826 birds were killed, and 1892, 

 when there was no shooting.' 



This average is 50 per cent higher than that 

 of Sir Frederick Milbank during his twelve years' 

 tenancy of the same moor, viz. 4,133 birds, although 

 his period includes the exceptional total of 17,064 in 

 1872 ; ] Lord Westbury's highest year being 9,797 in 

 1888. This looks as though the preservation of the 

 birds and the ground had reached a more perfect and 

 even condition. 



1 Badminton Library, Moor and Marsh, p. 37. 



