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Bird Notes from the Nile. 



with one hand, while with the other he 

 grasps a handful of birds already caught. 

 The " bag," no doubt, was varied, as 

 ibis, geese, and ducks, besides many small 

 birds, are depicted rising en masse from the 

 covert. Tame geese served as decoy birds. 



Goose killed with a boomeran» 



Cats must have been regularly used as 

 retrievers, as they are not unfrequently 

 portrayed thus on the monuments. 



Sometimes geese and ducks alone were 

 caught in very large nets. There is a 

 picture of a net spread out which seems so 

 weighted with game that it takes four men 



