Sporting Notes in the Far East. 81 



For duck, I recommend two guns starting up the stream, or so- 

 called river, which I have just mentioned, each working one 

 bank, and keeping as nearly abreast one another as possible. It 

 is a breeding stream, and between them, the guns will effectually 

 bother old mother duck, and her unsuspecting flappers, who know 

 not shot corns. 



The blackgame for the most part live in the long bent grass, 

 which grows in the tussocky dried up marshes, at the base of the 

 hills, and are exceptionally fine birds. 



The quail here have not altered their well-known habits, they 

 will as usual get up anywhere, and always as a surprise. 



What pheasants and tree grouse there are, will invariably be 

 found in the vicinity of the several small streams running into the 

 bay. 



One word here. In penning these notes on the different 

 " shootings," I am dreadfully afraid that I shall mislead the reader 

 who has not shot over them. For by my mention of all these 

 different varieties of birds, he will naturally infer that these coun- 

 tries are " stiff" with game. Whereas, perhaps only three or four 

 specimens, of any one of these kind (for example take blackgame) 

 may be brought to book in one day, out of all the combined 

 sporting parties of a big fleet, which sometimes reach a large total 

 of a long way on to fifty guns. 



In concluding the Wrangel Bay notes ; I should remark that the 



