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at different heights, taken from selected patterns of a gun on 
7 ft. by 7 ft. targets at the same elevations. 
In this series, pellets that would have struck the wings of 
the birds are not included, as in such case they are not killed 
in the air, but are probably recovered a quarter-mile distant 
by a dog. Nor are the one or two pellets marked that would 
have struck the legs, as a broken leg, unfortunately, does not 
stop a bird's flight. 
Gun : average pattern of 150 on a selected 30-in. circle at 
40 yds. horizontal ; load, 35 grs. E.G. i^q oz. No. 6, averaging 
287 to 289 pellets to the charge. 
What may be called the shot-patterns to be seen on the 
pheasants in Series VI., VII., VIII. were obtained by etching 
with a diamond, on a piece of glass, the outline to scale of 
the under-surface and partial anatomy of a large-sized cock 
bird, of which the diagrams in this series are reproductions 
one-seventh of the actual size. By placing the figure of the 
bird, as etched on the glass, over a selected 30-in. circle on one 
of the 7 ft. by 7 ft. linen targets, the pellet-marks could be 
seen through the glass, and their respective positions accurately 
dotted with ink on its surface. 
The ink-spots were copied on the reduced sketches and 
then wiped off the glass, and other patterns were obtained 
from other linen target-fronts in the same way, till all the 
patterns required were copied on the reduced sketches of 
the birds, as seen in Series VI., VII., VIII. The shot- 
marks on the sketches are drawn of large size so as to show 
plainly where they would have struck. 
It is worthy of comment that the average number of pellets 
that struck the live birds in Series V. at 40 yds. (estimated) 
and the pellets that would have struck the target-birds in 
