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can be slaugliterecl easily, even by inexperienced marks- 

 men. 



The Englisli snipe (scolopal gallinags, or scopolax 

 deliciata), the delight of the gourmand, is found in 

 great numbers all over the artesian belt district of the 

 county. Last season I bagged, near Westminster, 

 seventy-one English snipe in one day. 



The curlew, the rabbit, and hare afford excellent sport 

 the whole year round, and therefore give some amuse- 

 ment to the sportsman, even during the summer months, 

 or the close season.'^ 



The quail (the mountain and valley quail). The 

 former, as their name indicates, frequent the mountain- 

 ous part of the county, while the valley quail is found 

 everywhere, and in large coveys, often as many as five 

 and six hundred, are very pretty birds, and exceedingly 

 gamey. 



The doves are found everywhere, in small and large 

 flocks. They are very proliHc breeders, nesting three 

 or four times a year, and are, as an article of food, 

 almost preferable to the quail. 



Very encouraging for the future sportsman is the 

 forming of hunting clubs in the county, whose object 

 is, besides enforcing the game laws and making sugges- 

 tions to the Legislature about protecting game by 

 changing or shortening the shooting season, to introduce 

 new varieties of valuable game birds. 



The lately formed San Joaquin Shooting Club will 

 import, this coming spring, the Japanese pheasant 

 (Phaseanus Calchicus). 



I think it further worth mentioning that coursing- 

 after hares with greyhounds is very interesting and 



