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draws tliem tlirough the meslies. The following is the 

 method of arranging the net : — When stretched on the 

 ground^ the net is fastened down with small pegs on the 

 side nearest to the fowler. It is held out in its narrow 

 width by two poles, four feet in length, having a groove 

 at the end, through which a rope passes from pullies 

 fixed parallel to the poles and some few feet from them, 

 and from which is also carried at right angles, the long 

 line held by the fowler. The two poles work in joints, 

 and, at the fitting moment, the fowler pulls the line, 

 then the net is suddenly cast over and falls towards 

 the pullies, throwing the birds into the water, and 

 covering them as before stated. Lapwings fly with 

 the wind, ruffs and reeves against it, and as they are 

 some times taken when on the wing, the net is arranged 

 accordingly, being held out by poles ten feet in height. 



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This cosmopolitan species visits us regularly, though 

 not very numerously, in spring and autumn, and 

 except during extremely severe weather some few may 

 be met with throughout the winter, with stragglers, at 

 times, in every month of the year. By the end of July 

 or beginning of August small family groups make their 

 appearance on Breydon and other parts of the coast, 

 where they consort with sanderlings, dunlins, and ringed 

 plover, and, considering the lateness of their stay with 

 us in spring, their return in so short a time, vdth young, 

 well able to accompany their parents, is a fact of special 

 interest in studying the habits of these migratory tribes. 

 At Blakeney, a favourable point of the coast for this 

 species, where, from its habit of turning over sea-weeds 

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