ADVERTISEMENT. Vv 
course to be pursued ; for, of field sports, as of most 
other sublunary matters, it is true, especially in 
countries comparatively new, where population and 
cultivation are progressively increasing, and the 
wild animals of the chase proportionally on the 
decrease, that, 
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis; 
and in the space which has elapsed since first I 
wrote on “the sports of the field,” in this country, 
there has been ample room for change, and change 
has not failed the occasion. 
To conclude, all that genuinely comes within 
the scope of the “ Sports of the Field,” especially as 
regards novices, will be touched upon summarily in 
this little work, which may, in some respects, be 
regarded as introductory, in a few, perhaps, as sup- 
plemental, to my more thorough and voluminous 
publications ; but must not be expected in any sort 
to supersede them, as their greater compass enables 
them to embrace fully many topics which are not, 
as indeed they need not to be, so much as men- 
tioned in the following pages. 
Tue Cepars, 1856. 
