286 PHEASANTS 



They give a wonderful lot of shelter from the 

 wind. 



The price, I think, is about 3d. each, and they 

 are very hard to get. 



Wind must at times play a leading 

 part on all shooting days where driving is 

 the rule, and although with pheasants it 

 cannot often take entire charge of the 

 proceedings as it will among grouse or 

 partridges in the open country, still 

 its ejGFects are very difficult to guard 

 against on covert-shooting days, for an 

 alternative rise is not always easy to 

 provide for. 



The best equipped coverts in this re- 

 spect that the writer has ever seen had been 

 laid out regardless of expense. The main 

 wood ran along a wide valley, whUe at all 

 four points of the compass flushing 

 coverts occupied commanding knolls at a 

 convenient distance. No matter then 

 from what quarter the wind blew, for 

 there was always the rise directly down 

 wind. Here the birds fly nearly half a 

 mile before passing over the guns, and 



