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Figure 16. — A- 

 shaped run used 

 in planting 

 pheasants in 

 hedge-rows in 

 Clove Valley 

 Club's method 

 of shooting. 



Figure 16-A. — 

 This shows A- 

 shaped run after 

 being placed in 

 hedge-row. The 

 brush covering 

 run has been 

 pulled away 

 from one side so 

 as to give a clear- 

 er view of the 



Figure 16-B. — This shows keeper releasing 

 birds from sack into A-shaped run. 



for the escape of the birds. The run shoukl be well covered with brush. 

 For illustration see Figures 16, 16-A and 16-B. 



After the birds have been placed in the run the keeper remains until 

 they have "squatted." In a short time thereafter they will find the 

 opening and wander into the cover along the fence-line. 



After an interval of half an hour to an hour, the birds may be hunted 

 with dogs and will lie to a point in much the same manner as quail, par- 

 ticularly if the cover is dense. If released in any other manner they are 

 likely to make long flights and are very difficult to locate. 



Under these conditions the dog will usually set the birds, one at a 

 time, near the fence or hedge-row in which they have been released, and 

 those which escape almost invariably will fly down the hedge-row toward 

 the nearest swamp or swale, from which, if it be of considerable size, it 

 is almost impossible to drive them. If there is suitable food in the vicinity, 

 they will be found for weeks after either in the swamp or in neighbor- 

 ing covers. 



THE PHEASANT DOG.— It is almost impossible to find the birds 

 without a dog. The best for this purpose is a fast, wide-ranging animal of 



