Game

in the United Kingdom, includes hares, pheasants, partridges, black-game, bustards, grouse, land other heath or moor game. There is no legal close time for rabbits or foxes, or (except in Ireland) for deer or hares, but there is a ‘ customary law ’ amongst sportsmen. For instance, fox-hunting begins on November 1 and lasts till April stag-hunting begins August 12 and ends October 12; otter-hunting lasts from middle of April to middle of; September. In the same way, there is no fixed close-time for shooting woodcock, snipe, hares, rabbits, quails, etc., but they arc protected by the Game Laws. No black-game may be shot anywhere in the United Kingdom between December n and August 19; no pheasants between February 2 and September 30; no partridges between February 2 and August 31 no grouse between December n and August xi.; No game may ever be killed on a Sunday or on Christmas Day, and a number of wild-birds,’ not including, however, any of the ordinary * garden ’ birds, arc protected from