138 BIRD-LIFE OF THE BORDERS. 



shooting days of the season (alone), in two consecutive years 

 in Northumberland : 



Last ten days. Last ten days. 



Mild season. Deep snow on 



last three. 



Grouse 101 .... 119 



Blackgame .... 10 .... 17 

 Partridge. .... 8 .... 2 



Pheasant 1 .... 



Golden Plover .... 5 .... 7 



Snipe 9 .... 5 



Mallard . . . '. 1 



Golden-eye .... 2 .... 2 



Heron .... 1 



Hares 2 .... 



Babbits 1 .... 2 



Total . .139 . . 156 



This list may be interesting as showing both the variety 

 of game, and also what can be done by hard work, even at 

 the extreme end of the season, and in the short, dark days of 

 November and December. It is open, I fear, to being 

 thought egotistical ; possibly it is a little so ; but perhaps 

 no one will be so unkind as to notice that. 



