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net. This is truly a poacher's contrivance, but has its 

 legitimate use when live hares are wanted to stock 

 ground at a distance. 



The last net to be described is the ' drop-down- 

 net.' Everyone who owns game-coverts is familiar 

 with the fact that rabbits have a provoking habit of 

 feeding a little way outside their burrows, where at a 

 respectable distance they may be viewed perhaps in 

 hundreds ; but the instant an attempt is made to 

 approach them within shooting distance, they bolt 

 back into covert and are safe. It must often have 

 struck others as it has the writer, that if a net could 

 be contrived, elevated, and fixed in such a way as to 

 drop behind the rabbits when they are fairly out, and so 

 cut off their retreat, a much better toll might be taken 

 of their number, and if it were thought desirable this 

 might be effected without any shooting, and in a way 

 which need not disturb the pheasants. A contrivance 

 of this kind has been patented by Mr. A. R. Warren, of 

 Warren's Court, Lisarda, Co. Cork, and has been de- 

 scribed in The Field of December 3, 1892, with 

 illustrations. 



The net recommended is of 2-in. mesh, 3 ft. 

 deep, 100 yards long, made of the finest Irish flax, 

 with plaited running lines of the same, and may 

 be obtained of the patentee with the apparatus, if 



