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fir, oak, and ilex, its inland lakes and salt marshes, 
to be the typical home of British wild birds, game 
and fowl, as it is of a hardy and vigorous race of 
men. 
The Holkham records of partridge-shooting must, 
therefore, always be interesting to all who are fond of 
this branch of sport, and though individual bigger 
bags have here and there been made in other places, 
yet up to 1887, when it was surpassed at The Grange, 
Holkham held the record for a week’s shooting of 
four days. 
This estate furnishes, also, a strong instance of 
the effect of driving upon the number of birds, the 
more remarkable on account of the high standard of 
knowledge and management which. had prevailed 
there before it became the exclusive practice. 
By the kindness of Lord Coke, I am enabled to 
give some figures, which on this point are as startling 
as they are instructive. 
Up to about 1875 walking up and half-mooning, 
with a rare occasional drive, were the methods 
pursued. After 1875 driving was more and more 
practised, until after 1880 it became the exclusive 
custom. In other words, taking two representative 
decades, from 1865 to 1875, driving was the rare 
exception ; from 1880 to 1890 it was, as it still is, the 
