EUROPEAN GAME 
[described later] of killing the roebuck is by luring it within shot by means 
of an artificial call which can be made to imitate the amorous cry of the 
female. 
In the Alpine parts of Bavaria chamois are plentiful. There are num- 
bers of chamois also all along the Tyrolese frontier, where the game is, 
however, constantly harassed by the owners of small peasant shoots. 
Numbers of Bavarian nobles and princes, such as the Prince Regent, the 
Duke Charles Theodor, Prince Taxis, Barons Bebenburg and Clarner 
Klett, Count Quadt, Prince Fugger, Duke Louis, etc., have all the best 
chamois ground in their hands, which for the most part are leased from 
Tyrolese communities. The total number of chamois in the German 
Alps is estimated at 5,000 to 6,000, whilst the number killed there is 
from 500 to 600 head. 
The method of shooting chamois in these mountains is by driving and 
stalking, or by a kind of combination of both known as riegeln. 
Although the German farmers will permit a good stock of roe on their 
grounds, they have the greatest objection to the preservation of the wild 
boar owing to its destructive habits. Consequently these animals are 
only preserved in large numbers in private enclosures reserved for shoot- 
ing. There are a few large forest tracts, such as Spessart, where about 
600 head exist, and they are also found wild in Brandenburg, Westphalia, 
the Rhine Provinces, and Alsace-Lorraine. Large preserves of wild boars 
are kept by the Emperor at Springe, by the King of Saxony at Moritzburg, 
and by Prince Stolberg at Wernigerode. Boars are generally killed by 
driving with dogs, by driving with beaters, or by following the spoor of a 
sounder in the snow. The wild boar is not protected by any close season, 
and they are usually shot with a smooth bore, the right barrel carrying 
a bullet and the left buckshot. 
Large numbers of foxes are shot in Germany. At Prince Fiirstenberg’s 
estate the Emperor has killed thirty in a day. Hares, too, are very 
plentiful in Saxony and other parts. Bags of 1,800 to 2,000 have been 
made by ten or twelve guns, and the Emperor has shot 832 in one day at 
Neugattersleben. In large shoots an oblong rectangle is formed round the 
game. The whole party of shooters moves forward towards a point which 
is closed by the beaters. 
Partridges are plentiful in certain districts, 600 having been shot by 
driving at Gross Strehlitz, and 280 (four guns) by shooting over dogs at 
Kreisewitz. Woodcock and snipe are not very plentiful. The capercailzie 
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