The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-16 00:00:00

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.

(From the Inverness Cow ier.)
We subjoin a few notes of sport received during
the week :

At Wyvis, the sport since the 2d September has
been as follows:—On 2d September, Messrs. Peel
and Mr. Moseley made a bag of 53 brace grouse ;
On sth inst., the same party killed 21 brace grouse;
on the 6th inst., the Messrs. Peel killed 14* brace
grouse and 2* brace black-game. On the 7th inst.
the Messrs. Peel and Mr. Moseley bagged 36 brace
grouse and 1* brace of blackgame. On the Strath-
mashie moors, Messrs. J. T. Hopwood, M P., R. A.
Glass, and J. K. Edwards, killed 1,035 brace of
grouse from 12th August to 12th September. The
weather was very unfavourable. There is no ap-
pearance of disease, and the birds are unusually
strong. At Tulchen, Craigellachie, on the 9th of
September, Mr Robert Wynne Williams killed 19
brace grouse, besides a number of hares to his own
gun. The birds were healthy and very large. The
weather at Brearoy still continues most unfavour-
able, and shooting regularly is quite out of the
question. On the 2d inst., Mr. Hogg bagged 141
brace of grouse and four hares, and of the 6th shot
and bagged 21* brace grouse and 6 hares in 4*
hours over one brace of dogs. On the 7th Mr.
Arbuthnot bagged 111 brace grouse and 3 hares.
the birds are strong and healthy At Erchless, on
the 3d September, after one o'clock, Sir Greville
Smyth, Bart., and party, shot 50 brace grouse, and
10 hares. On the 6th, Sir Greville and a small
party made a bag of 55 brace grouse, 4 ducks and
20 hares. On the 9th inst. Captain Wright landed
3 salmon before nine o'clock in the morning; and,
in company with Captain Paul, afterwards shot a
roebuck and bagged 16 brace of grouse, one snipe
and two bares. The party at Cawdor Castle has
broken up. The following is the result of the sport
of the season :—Grouse, 1,181 ; blackgame, 16;
partridges, 13 ; wildfowl, snipe, &c., 21; roes, 19 ;
hares, 145 ; salmon, 5. The largest bag of the
season, 41 brace grouse, was made by Lord Wil-
liam Thynne, shooting alone. Lord Emlyn, a
youth of fourteen years of age, shot 9 brace of
grouse with his own gun in one day, and on another
day his lordship brought down 3 roedeer.
The following sport had been had in the forest of
Cluanie, Glenmoriston :—On Aug. 27, Mr. Clare
Vyner killed a very good stag, weighing 15 stone.
On Aug. 28, Mr. Vyner killed two stags, right and
left, one of them having a geod wide head ; and
Lord Cowper brought down a fine fat stag on the
same day. On Sept. 2 Lord Cowper killed a good
stag with ten tines; on the sth) Sir Henry Cotterell
killed a stag weighing 14 stone 9 lbs., with a very
good head. On the 6th, Sir Henry killed another
stag • and Lord Cowper brought down two very
handsome stags right and left, one weighing 17
stone 21135, and having 11 tines, all of which were
well developed ; the other weighing 15 stone Ms.,
and having 10 tines, which measured 30* inches
acrosf, the bow. The brow and top antlers mea-
sured 10* inches long, and the antlers measured 31
inches in length, and were very thick and rough.
On the 7th inst. Lord Cowper killed another fine
stag; the head was well developed, and carried 10
tines. The weather was very unfavourable. In the
Strathmore forest (Glut and Rumsdale), Mr. Thos.
Horne has shot five stags and one hind this season.
The prevalence of westerly winds was against the
sport on these grounds. One of the stag's heads
has been sent to Mr. Snowie for preservation. The
Duke of Portland's forest ,sf Langwell is at present
well stocked with deer. A party on the top of
Morven, on the 7th inst., saw four lots of fine deer
there—one of about 100 head, and there were about
30 head in each of the otber three lots. The best
head of the season is from Mr. Thistlethwayte.
The stag was shot on the 6th at Fannich, and had
no less than 14 tines on his antlers. The head has
been sent to Mr. Snowie for preservation. Since
the commencement of the season several very fine
heads have been sent to Mr. Macleay, birdstuffer
here, for preservation. Within the last few days
he had three from the Earl of Stamford, Kinrara,
one of them a fine royal head; three from Henry
Akroyd, Esq., Aultnabarrow ; two from Inver-
garry ; four from T. Hutchinson, Esq., Rt.idarrock
forest; and a very fine royal head from T. F. Hazle-
hurst, Esq., forest of Dalness.