Practical Game-Preserving. 23, 



shelter from inclemencies of weather, in those places where 

 probability points to its being obtainable. This in itself 

 furnishes the best guide as to where the winter feeding can 

 take place. To this end small food-shelters, such as I 

 have described for pheasants, should be put up, with oats 

 and barley, buckwheat, and millet as the grain provided. 

 Black Game and Red Grouse too infinitely prefer the 

 grain in the straw, in which form the food is best given. 

 With the birds coming, as they do, to seek it, the diffi- 

 culties of providing it are not great, and it will be found 

 that in the case of Black Game careful and considerate 

 feeding during the winter months will well repay itself by 

 increased and healthier stock at shooting-time. 



