with a sparse growth of bruch and poplar bushes, the tallest more than were may 6 or 7 feet high. As we went on up the valley we could see that it ended on bare brown uplands. We got down upon a rock & wait for the hunters who were a few hundred yards behind, with a good deal of disgust we asked them Where the rabbits were & when we'd get them, "We have already arrived" they answered "the deer are in these valleys in the valleys" To say I was astonished only half expresses it. The idea of hunting traffic in such a place as this! There hardly seemed hardly cover enough to successfully conceal a rabbit, to say nothing of an animal as large as a horse. It was a similar case to that of the rebuck of our shire which were living on absolutely bare ravines - The case of a forest animal which as the trees were cut away and its natural environment disappeared had more or less adapted itself to chang ing conditions with some degree of!