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the experienced sportsman. The birds killed may have had very dif- 
ferent meals on consecutive days. It is such reports as this that 
cause the general public—at least that portion that resides in the 
country—to lose faith in ornithological lore in general. Certain it 
is that just as sure as a crow finds a breeding pen of pheasants in 
an open yard, he will get almost every egg if you don’t get him. 
You ean usually fool the pheasant hen with a cast iron egg painted 
as nearly the color of the real egg as possible, but you can’t fool Mr. 
Crow. ‘To get within gunshot of a crow is not an easy task, but he 
will partake of a pheasant egg that has been carefully dosed with 
strychnine. When one crow has been poisoned, the balance of the 
flock will fly high over your premises for some time. 
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