196 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



As a rule, snipe are to be found in the paddies around Hoihow 

 about the months of April and September ; but all seasons are not 

 the same, and some years, birds appear to pass right over the 

 island without stopping, and with the exception of a few stragglers 



that arrive very late and are in poor condition, birds are hard to find 







There is a lagoon about two and a half hours walking from 

 Hoihow ; where, in the short days of December and January, a few 

 duck and geese may be picked up. 



Bag. 



3 Guns. March 4th, 1887 (half a day). 

 12 Partridges. 3 Hares. 3 Snipe. 4 Quail. 2 Pigeons. 



PAKHOI. 



Pakhoi has no shooting to speak of; but if you want an excuse 

 for a walk, take a gun and land near the paddies on the spit, just 

 behind the fishing stakes : in these paddies, in spring and autumn, 

 there are generally a certain number of snipe, and always a few 

 pigeons. 



Some rice fields here are very deep, and are in places (owing to 

 overgrown springs) really quite dangerous : so I should advise the 

 sportsman to refrain from mudlarking, and to stick to the banks, 

 notwithstanding that on one occasion, I had to be truly thankful 

 for this same deep treacherous mud. 



I was one day passing at some distance, an old cow water-buffalo 



