HISTORICAL NOTES 91 



Found on the 18th crippled 



Hares 9 



Pheasants .... 76 



Woodcock .... 1 



Total . 84 



Total 1008 head! 



Total Hares . 



Pheasants . . 788 



Partridges . . 6 



Woodcocks . 3 



A further entry in the same year may 

 be quoted : 



Prince Schwartzenberg's, in Bohemia. 



Nov. 24, 1799 TRAUENBERG. 



The day appointed for the great pheasant 

 chasse. It took place in a very large pheasantry 

 situated about two miles from the castle. It is 

 cut expressly in walks where you take your station, 

 and the pheasants drive the birds over your heads. 

 We were very few shooters, and the four ladies 

 shot a little, killing about forty head amongst 

 them. They had sets of light guns made on 

 purpose for them, and portable chairs. 



At the close of the day's sport there were laid 

 out 540 pheasants, several of them white ones. 

 Eighty-five fell to my share. We were but six or 

 seven men shooters. The day was beautiful, and 

 the quantity of birds far exceeded anything I had 

 seen anywhere else. They literally rose at times 



