200 GAME KILLED TAM HUTTSON. 



the following statement, the result of the last day's shooting- this season, at Hoik- 

 ham Hall, when H. S. Partridge, Esq. and four friends, killed : 253 pheasants, 

 23 hares, 14 rabbits, 3 partridges, 1 woodcock. Total, 294 head of game. 



The following quantity of game was shot at Woolverstone Park, Suffolk, the 

 seat of Charles Berners, Esq. in the last week : 



par. phea. hares rab. woodcocks. 



GROUSE. On the first day of Grouse Shooting, 1819, Mr. Atkinson of Cocker- 

 mouth, shot and bagged twenty brace. 



The pestinential disease which attacked the Moor Game, in the Northern 

 counties of Scotland, in 1819, is said to have been produced in the high grounds 

 of Inverness Shire, by worms resembling maggots, which bred under the wings ; 

 in Atholl, by a species of lice, on the head and neck. In all probability, the 

 vermin was the effect, not the original cause of the disease. 



MARK FOREST. The slaughter of Grouse, at the Earl of Fife's, was not so great 

 this year, as in former seasons, but the number of red Deer killed was greater than 

 usual. The Marquis of Blandford, and the Earl of Fife were very successful 

 among the Deer : Sir William Elliot and Mr. Coke, M. P. of Derby, had great 

 success among the muir Fowl and Ptarmigan, but the latter were by no means so 

 numerous as usual, owing to bad weather in the spring, which destroyed the 

 young broods. 



AULD TAM HUTTSON, game-keeper to His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh and 

 Queensberry, at Bowhill Forest, Selkirkshire, has killed, within the last fortnight, 

 (October 1819,) with the help of Jem Fletcher, his assistant keeper, 165 hares; 

 and in the course of the season, 173 brace of grouse, 115 brace of black cocks, 197 

 brace of partridges, and 112 brace of pheasants. One of the hares, weighed 

 9| Ibs. one black cock, 6 Ibs. 7 oz. and one pheasant, 3 Ibs. 10 oz. Auld Tarn, as 

 the late Duke used to style him, is now four score years of age, and yet he partakes 

 of the sports of the field, the same as when he was but thirty . He has been up- 

 wards of forty-three years in the Buccleugh family, the present being the third 

 Duke whom he has served : his experience on the muirs, is of sixty-three years du- 

 ration. When about forty-Jive, Tarn was allowed by all Sportsmen, who knew 

 him, to be the best shot in Scotland ; and at one period, he was almost as famous 

 a Jockey. In the late Duke's time, he rode a match against Hope, one of the 

 Duke's grooms from Yorkshire, and beat him cleverly. At that period Auld Tarn 

 was sixty -Jive. This was his last race. 



