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haunted," that they can be handled satisfactorily at their 

 feeding-grounds. Elsewhere it is usually a mistake to 

 molest them during- the day. Whoever would fill his 

 bag with wood-pigeons should there leave them to get 

 their feed in peace, and wait for them towards night in 

 the woods whither they fly to roost. Therein, during the 



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Wood-Pigeons — Evening. 



last hour of daylight, is the time and place, on favourable 

 occasion, to kill them by wholesale. A stormy evening 

 should be selected, and then, as flight after flight streams 

 in, in quick succession, the gunner will be rewarded for 

 his moderation during the day. But a very little shoot- 

 ing will make cushats exceedingly cautious, and they 

 then circle high round the woods, wheeling perhaps 



