1 80 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



The season unfortunately only lasts for a short six weeks ; and 

 by the end of the year they have pretty well all departed. 



The partridges only frequent the hills, and the finer the day, 

 the more likely are you to be successful : as in rainy, or dirty 

 weather, they secrete themselves amongst the rocks and crevices, 

 and it is then very difficult to " oust " them. 



At other times, these birds will mostly be flushed out of the 

 long coarse grass which grows in the hollows on the hill sides ; 

 and the nearer cultivation (be it ever so small) that this grass 

 grows, the more likely is it to " hold." 



Partridges are scattered, in a small degree, all over the hills on 

 the mainland. Therefore if at any time you are in want of a good 

 "constitutional," and will be content (at the outside), with a couple 

 of brace, you cannot do better than land either at Junk Bay an 

 inlet nearly opposite the Lymoon forts ; or else at the foot of the 

 hills on the mainland immediately behind Stonecutter's Island. 



In both places the groumd is very similar, and you must work 

 the mountain sides, and the likely looking corries between them. 



The shooting in the island of Hongkong itself is not worth 

 mentioning, although I have heard of an occasional phantom 

 woodcock being knocked over at Little Hongkong. There are a 

 few partridges on the island, but I should say that one would 

 wear out too many pairs of boots, to make their pursuit in any way 

 profitable- 



