TRAPPING, SNARING, NETTING, ^c. 139 



carried without inconvenience, enable it to be readily 

 transported from one part of the country to another, 

 and as easily concealed. 



Should there be too many rabbits in a particular 

 covert, and comparatively few where wanted on a 

 remote part of the shooting, the capture of a sufficient 

 number may be easily effected with the ' long-net.' It 

 is usually made in lengths of from 50 to 100 yards or 

 more, and the width is generally about 5 feet, the 

 meshes, 2 J in. square, being large enough to allow a 

 very small rabbit to get through. Long-nets are 

 usually set about two yards from the side of the covert. 

 If further away, the rabbits are more likely to see 

 persons moving near them than if closer to the covert. 



In the second series of his ' Letters to Young 

 Shooters' (p. 419), Sir R. Payne-Gallwey writes: 

 ' When you use nets to catch rabbits, have them 

 made with their lower halves of light cord, and their 

 upper of dark (this does not add to the cost), the 

 lower and lighter half will then appear to a rabbit as 

 an opening under the darker part, and he will un- 

 hesitatingly run into it.' We are not told, however, 

 how long the light-coloured cord will remain so. Not 

 long probably ; for a few nights' work over wet grass, 

 and a few tramplings under foot when setting or 

 picking up, will very soon cause the net to get dirty 



