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deer, 254 teal, 24 duck, 26 woodcock, 32 

 hares, 18 partridges, 9 geese, 32 snipes, i 

 bittern, 2 foxes, i wild cat, i ground hog. 



Hangchow district, 3 guns, 3 days shoot- 

 ing, 150 head, made up of 39 pheasants, 27 

 partridges, 50 woodcock, 9 hare, i goose, 

 10 teal, 4 snipes, 10 quail. 



On the Tsien-Tang river, near Hangchow, 

 in 1903, 5 guns, 14 days shooting, and 3 

 guns, 7 days' shooting, 640 head of a very 

 mixed nature, 334 pheasants, 115 partridges, 

 89 quail, 29 snipes, 15 woodcocks, n hares, 

 2 deer, i goose, 3 duck, 8 teal, 26 pigeon, i 

 plover, 2 foxes, i corncrake, i civet cat, 

 i wild cat, i coon dog. 



These facts and figures are merely 

 adduced as evidence of the delightfully 

 various nature of the shooting still to be 

 obtained in China, though, unfortunately, 

 in rapidly diminishing quantity. 



A few of the reflections that may not 

 unreasonably arise in the minds of those 

 who have been sufficiently interested, in 

 what has been written on the small game 

 of China to have given them some 

 little consideration, may now be briefly 

 summarized. 



