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THE ORRE-TRATT. 



localities, the fowler has little or no occasion to leave 

 his vehicle." 



When the weather is favourable, and provided the 

 rifle be held straight, when stalking Black-Cock, Avhetlier 

 on foot or in a sledge, one may pretty well calculate 

 on making a fair " bag." I myself, it is true, was never 

 very successful, owing to a miserable rifle; but I have 

 known others to do considerable execution. One of my 

 own men, indeed, assured me that with a pea-rifle he had 

 tints shot nine birds in one dav. 



Numbers of Black-Cock are likewise taken in traps 

 and snares of various kinds. Some of the devices are 

 similar to those used for the capture of the Capercali, 

 which have been already described ; but others are 

 differently constructed, and of these I shall now speak. 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 2. 



The first in order, as regards ingenuity at least, is 

 called the Orre-Tratt — or Elack-Cock funnel — represented 



