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SNIPE. PliEASANT AND WOOY)COCK 
IN JAPAN. 
While wildfowl undoubtedly afford the best 
sport to the gunner in Japan, snipe, pheasant 
and woodcock run them very close indeed for 
second place. And perhaps more particularly 
so is this the case with the snipe, for though 
no such great bags of them can be made there 
as in India, China and the Straits Settlements, 
yet on the other hand, the bags obtainable in 
Japan, of from twenty to thirty couple, are as 
often as not made in conjunction with a com¬ 
bined bag of pheasant, woodcock and other 
game. With regard to snipe-shooting alone, 
however, by far the greater number of birds 
shot in Japan are visitants from the neighbor¬ 
ing mainland of Asia, though many breed in 
the wilder recesses of the empire. I have my¬ 
self, at different times and at different places, 
came across a dozen or more of their nests, 
and upon one memorable occasion saw no less 
than three of them within a space of a quarter 
of an acre. That was at Etajima, an island in 
the Inland Sea, and some few years back quite 
one of the best shooting spots in Japan. But 
whether bred in the country or visitants from 
Siberian and Manchurian wilds, snipe do not 
begin to make their presence properly known 
in Japan until the end of September or the be¬ 
ginning of October. By November they are 
fairly numerous and increasing in numbers un¬ 
til December; they begin to leave the country 
about the middle of February and are seldom 
seen after the end of March. 
The best snipe grounds in Japan must be 
looked for in the higher lying rice fields, and 
if there is anything of a wind on the birds will 
be found squatting to the lee of the embank¬ 
ments dividing them. A good bag should con¬ 
tain some jack in it, and if the sportsman is 
lucky and shooting in the right neighborhood, 
a bird or two of an extra large species. 
Pheasant shooting in Japan is a particularly 
rough sport compared to what it is in England, 
for so broken and hilly are the coverts there, 
and so overgrown with creepers and tropical- 
like vegetation, that in order to ensure suc¬ 
cess a gunner must be something more than a 
mere shot. In the first place he must not be a 
shirker of hard work, and then he must have 
some knowledge of woodcraft and be the hap¬ 
py possessor of a good dog, and know thor¬ 
oughly well how to manage it. 
There are two species of pheasants in Japan, 
the kiji and the yama-dori. The first is that 
thoroughly gamey beauty known in England 
as the “green-necked pheasant of Japan,” or 
P. versi-color. and the second as the “copper 
pheasant, or P. sommeringi. Both are remark¬ 
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latter. An uncleaned cock bird of the first- 
named species should not weigh less than from 
three to four pounds, and one of the second 
species a good pound and a half more, at the 
very least. These weights are, I know, consid¬ 
erably above the average of pheasants in Eng¬ 
land, but then it must be remembered Japanese 
pheasants are wild bred birds, and despite of 
what some may say, bred under healthier and 
more advantageous circumstances than the 
English birds. They have more space to roam 
about in, and can always obtain plenty of good 
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