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approached by a fox ; it differs greatly from the behaviour of 

 the average grouse before the man and the ordinary dog. 

 Then crouching and creeping are characteristics of the 

 race, unless they are of the wild sort, when standing up 

 to look for an enemy is habitual, and flying upon sight is 

 characteristic. 



[Since writing the foregoing remarks, Mr. Charles Christie, 

 of Strathdon Estate Office, has very kindly, with the assent 

 of Sir Charles Forbes, made a search for the oft misquoted 

 records of the Delnadamph bag of 1872. The bag was 7000 

 birds, not brace, and 1314 brace of these were killed over dogs 

 in five days by four guns, whose best effort resulted in 435 

 brace. The guns were Lord Dunmore, Lord Newport (now 

 Lord Bradford), Mr. George Forbes, and the late Sir Charles 

 John Forbes. 



Sir Charles Forbes' Edinglassie moor yielded 8081 birds 

 in 1900. 



Probably the record bag over dogs was the 10,600 grouse 

 killed at Glenbuchat in 1872, where Mr. James W. Barclay 

 (the owner) very kindly informs the author that driving was 

 not started until after that year, whereas the greater number 

 were killed by that plan at Delnadamph in 1872.] 



