The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

The Moors and Forests in Scotland.

Our reports from the hills are gradually decreasing in
numbers and importance, but the extreme wet and stormy
weather of the last week sufficiently accounts for this.
Grouse are iot scarce ; they ale, however, very wild, and
difficult to find them within gunshot. The forests are well
stocked, but few deerstalkers have ventured out for some
days past. Sport, however, has been obtained, as will be
seen from the following notes :
The following is a note of game killed on the Dalnawillan
and Dorrery moors prior to the .sth inst., viz. :—Grouse, 524
head ; hares, 43 ; snipe, 39 ; golden plover, 4 ; wild ducks,
4. On Saturday week Captain Marshall shot a white grouse
on the Glencallater moors.

In Perthshire, the great majority of sportsmen have
abandoned grouse-shooting for the season, after a months
good sport on the principal moors, and generally there
has been a good stock left for breeding. On the shooting-
grounds where sport is still continued considerable num-
bers of grouse and other game are killed daily. On the
Drummond Castle moors, on Wednesday, Mr. Knightlyshot
101 brace of grouse and 1 brace of blackcock. On the
moors of Findoch, on Wednesday, Mr. Hall shot a number
of grouse, 8 brace of partridges, and 4 hares. On the banks
of the Earn and other districts, where the grain fields have
been cleared, excellent sport has been enjoyed at partridge
shooting. On Thursday a party of three guns bagged 55
brace of partridges and 25 hares ; and on Friday ono gentle-
man shot 13 brace of partridges and 4 hares. In Strathtay,
Strathearn, Strathallan, and other districts of the county,
the stock of partridges is unusually plentiful, and the birds
are in fine condition. Pheasant shooting opens next week,
and the prospects in many preserves are highly encourag-
ing, the broods numbering from 12 to 16 birds each.
Down to the 7th inst. Lord Galway and son shot 11 stags
at Langwell, in this county, in addition. to capturing n
beautiful salmon. Last week Capt. Mennen brought down
anuther stag in Glencallater forest. Cu!. R. Farquharson,
of luvercauld, on Monday week brought down two fine stag,
and one on Tuesday. The latter possessed a beautiful head.
Mr. H, Snowie, Chureh-street, luverness,notw iihstanding
the very unfavourable weather which has been experienced,
has received a number of stags' heads for preservation sines
our last report. J. G. Leigh, Esq., forwarded a very fine
head of 10 tines—the animal weighing ISst.--and also a
royal head, taken from a steg of 19st. The Earl of Dudley
also sent one the span of which was 25 inches,
length of
horn 32 inches, and girth 5 inches ; the head bore 13 tines.
A titre head of 10 tines was also received from Col. Baker,
Lochwore; two were sent by J. F. Basset,E,sq , Kinlochewe,
one of them a splendid royal ; a fine roe head from the Hon.
F. T. Freke ; a second from Col. Fraser; and a third from
Lord March, Gordon Castle.
Within the past week Mr. W. A. Maclesy, Church-st.,
has received 13 capital stags' heads, sent for preservation
—two of them from the Earl of Seafield ; one from the
Rev. T. J. Prout, at Sir J. Stuart's, Lochcarron ; one from
Mr. Fitzgerald, Braemar° ; and two from Mr. Hutchinson,
Rhidarroch ; also, two very beautiful roebucks' heads from
Cawdor castle,