CHAPTER IX. 



TRAVELLING WITH BIKDS. 



Young beginners often meet with great trouble^ and 

 sometimes serious loss, in removing their birds, after 

 purchasings from a want of knowledge of how to manage 

 them. 



At all times, w^ith the most experienced men, remov- 

 ing birds where thej have been long in camps and have 

 become unused to strange sights and sounds, is a matter 

 of anxiety, forethought and patience, especially the first 

 two days' journey, though after that time the birds get 

 accustomed to it, and there is little difficulty, unless 

 dogs are met with and chase them. 



AVith birds of all ages, a man should walk in front 

 with a bag of mealies, dropping a few as he goes along, 

 and calling to the birds, the other men driving on 

 behind being armed with light thorn-bushes^ which are 

 infinitely superior to whips^ as, if the birds take fright 

 and try to turn back, the thorn-bushes turn them wdiere 

 whips are useless ; besides, wdiips spoil the plumage and 

 are apt to catch in the birds* legs and throw them down^ 

 especially when the whips get wet. 



