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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
THE UPLAND SHOOTING 
OF THE 
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES, AND OF THE 
BRITISH PROVINCES. 
PLAND SHOOTING, which, 
with the interval of about three 
months in ordinary seasons, may 
be enjoyed in some form or other 
during the whole year, in the 
Eastern and Middle States, may 
be divided with propriety into 
four different heads, commencing 
with the opening of spring, and terminating only with the termi¬ 
nation of the year. 
These heads are “ Spring Snipe Shooting“ Summer Cock 
Shooting;” “Upland Plover Shooting;” and “ Autumn Shoot¬ 
ing,” which might be called u general shooting,” inasmuch as in 
the course of a good day’s sport, it is by no means unusual to 
bring to bag almost every variety of game which I have enume¬ 
rated above, the Grouse and the Northern Hare alone excepted. 
A separate head must be given to Grouse shooting,—by which 
I mean Pinnated Grouse ; since they are so nearly extinct in 
those districts in which alone Upland Shooting is practised sci¬ 
entifically and as a sport, that they are rarely, I might say never 
met with, by those in pursuit of other game. 
It will be observed that I am now speaking of Upland shoot¬ 
ing, as it is ; both established by law, and habitually practised 
