“ZOUJOURS PERDKIX’ 103 
Fig. 6 shows the necessity for shooting well over 
a bird rising off the hill underneath you. 
Fig. 7 shows the necessity for shooting over a 
bird which rises in front of you! and makes straight 
away. 
All this is no doubt very elementary, and would 
be matter of instinct to a first-rate shot; but it has 
not, so far as I am aware, been shown on paper in 
Fic. 7 
this form before. The very few lines of these drawings 
demonstrate, I hope with simplicity, that the only 
instance in which you have to shoot af¢ the bird itself 
is when, as in fig. 5, it is heading straight for the 
muzzle of your gun. The habit of making some 
allowance for where the bird is going to may pro- 
bably be acquired, though the amount of allowance, 
‘It might happen that a bird, having risen in front of you, 
flying away, had before you fired risen to the level of your eye, 
and was then pursuing a level course; but this would be very 
exceptional. In this case you would shoot a/ the bird, as in fig. 5. 
