422 SHOOTING. 



direct him, whenever the wind is high, to make 

 for the leeward side of the moor. Grouse do not 

 fly with the wind on all occasions, but whenever 

 they happen to do so, their flights are longer than 

 when they face it ; and, when going across wind, 

 their flight has ever a tendency to the lee side. 

 Thus, when every brood has been flushed several 

 times, the windward side of the moors becomes 

 deserted, and the leeward side the resort of both 

 game and shooters. Whatsoever species of game 

 he is in pursuit of, the shooter will do well to keep 

 on that side of the hill which is protected from the 

 wind. The most unlikely place in the world to 

 find any kind of game is a hill-side on which the 

 wind plays. But in stormy weather the hill-top 

 and the plain should be equally shunned, a nar- 

 row valley, or the steep hill-side sheltered from the 

 wind, are then the usual places of resort. 



The favourite haunts of grouse, when undis- 

 turbed, are those patches of ground where the 

 young heather is most luxuriant. They avoid 

 rocks, and bare places where the heather has been 

 recently burnt ; at any rate they are not to be 

 approached in such places. It is in young heather 

 that grouse most frequently feed. They are sel- 

 dom found in the very long thick heather that 

 clothes some part of the hills, until driven there 

 for shelter by shooters or others. It is early in 

 the morning and towards evening that grouse are 

 to be found in young heather. During the middle 

 of the day the shooter should range the sunny side 

 of the hill, and avoid plains. 



