MANAGEMENT OF GROUSE MOORS 
themselves: moreover, the majority of the birds caught are hens. The 
only way to cope successfully with the netters is to start netting also, 
when probably the rival netters will catch so few, they will abandon the 
attempt. In one case where this was done, and where the owner kept on 
with only 850 yards of netting after the others had stopped, 324 grouse 
were caught, of which only 97 were cocks, while 227 were hens. The grouse 
were marked and turned out again on a distant moor, though sixty -one 
birds were too much injured and had to be killed. Of the marked birds 
only three were caught a second time. 
R. F. MEYSEY-THOMPSON. 
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