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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



caged, my hrother took a pliotog-rapli of a receiver 

 belonging to two young fellows, wlio had tlieir 

 nets spread alongside a plot of mangold wurzel. 

 The top of the cage has two circular holes in it. 

 These have each the leg of an old cotton stocking 

 tacked neatly round them, and once the captured 

 bird has l)een thrust down the ingenious funnel 



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BIRD-CATCHER'S RECEIVER, 



thus formed its chances of escape are very small 

 indeed. 



Bird-catchers carry two tin bottles out with them 

 — one containing tea or such other beverage, as 

 fortune will afford, and the other water for their 

 birds, about whose welfare they arc, as a rul(^, most 

 solicitous. 



Tlie labour of carrying tlie nets, call-l)lrds, and 

 other paraphernalia about the country is divided be- 

 tween the two men in ])artnershi}), and tlie picture 

 opposite illustrates how tlie plant is conveyed from 

 place to place. 'I'he handkercliiei' iii the hand of 

 the mail on the left contains the bodies of such 



