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the tigress and cub, and the next we heard of [them was that a Badaga had 
shot the tigress with his old blunderbus and had brought the carcase in to the 
collector’s office for the reward. 
But to resume, we beat several sholas and swamps on our way back and add 
another hare, a woodcock, two jungle fowls and four snipes to the bag. So ended 
what was to us a perfect day with a bag a good deal above the average. 
Folks on the plains, accustomed to large bags of snipe, ducks, partridges, 
pigeons and so on may jeer at such a bag but to counterbalance the smallness of 
it one must take into consideration the delightful climate, glorious views and Al 
exercise—personally I would any day prefer a day’s shooting up here to the 
best obtainable down on the plains. 
It may be of interest to sportsmen if I give my bag obtained here this last 
season 1920-21 ; it will show more or less what may be expected in the way of 
small game :— 
Woodcock me cis ane an .. 183 Couple. 
Jungle fowl .. ate ah ae sa 19 SS 
Snipe an he ee bd sis ZEEE 
Spur fowl Ae. Ee ae 3 Jal Sere ay 
Pigeons ae a an i «nm OEY). 5, 
Hares ae at - oA ak) aoe 
or @ total of 277 heads for 33 outings, giving an average of between 8 and 9 per 
day. 
V.B.—For further information concerning the shooting obtainable on the 
Nilgiris, sportsmen are advised to read “ Small-game shooting around Ootaca- 
mund *’ by Rolling-Stone (Lt.-Col. H. 2. Baker) obtainable at the Ootacamund 
and Nilgiri Press, Ootacamund, South India, price 8 annas, postage Ones 
Eds. 
