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referred above to the sport which these birds 

 sometimes afiford in Cornwall and the Scilly 

 Islands. But, of all places in the British Islands 

 for this kind of shooting, none are comparable to 

 certain localities in the west and south-west of 

 Ireland. Sligo and Mayo are noted counties for 

 Woodcock. In Mayo 10 to 30 couple is a fair 



A woodcock's nest. 



day's sport for a party of six guns, but 40 couple 

 have been killed in a day in one of Lord Sligo's 

 woods. At Lissadel, in the Co. Sligo, 150 couple 

 were killed in three days by a party of eight guns, 

 and at the same place on another occasion 338 

 cocks were bagged in six days by seven guns. In 



