240 TUE doxa-oang. 



migratory birds, during the niglit-time, meet witli a great 

 lake, and cannot see the opposite shore, they, from being 

 uncertain if daylight might not overtake them before 

 reaching the land, will not venture to cross the water, 

 but alight at once. 



"The most favourable situations for the 'Donor' are 

 three in number : — 1st. The Avooded borders of a large 

 lake, more especially a skogs-udde, or wooded promontory, 

 of no great width, that stretches out into the water. 2nd. 

 — A skogs-haclie, or wooded eminence, either in connection 

 with, or at but a short distance from a large wood ; and 

 3rdly — A deep and marshy valley, through which flows a 

 stream or brook, but where, nevertheless, the cover is 

 not too dense. In localities such as described, one com- 

 monly finds the Missel-Thrush in pine-woods ; the 

 Fieldfare amongst underwood, especially juniper; the 

 Song-Thrush and the Blackbird in young wood, consisting 

 either of pine or of deciduous trees, and the Redwing 

 in half-grown woods of tlie latter." 



The Dona-gang — as the pathway by the sides of which 

 the snai'es are set is called — should be situated in marshy 

 ground, intersected by rills and water-courses. It ought 

 to be in order by the month of August ; that is to say, 

 tbe underwood cleared away, and the lower twigs topped 

 from ofi" the trees to which it is intended to attach the 

 " Donor." The pathway ought to be as serpentine as the 

 nature of the ground will admit of, and not too wide ; a 

 common forest track, which is frequently selected for the 

 purpose, is sufiiciently so. If practicable, three of the 

 trees, but not more, on which it is meant to suspend 

 the snares, should be visible at the same time. 



The " Donor " are of different kinds, partly with 

 regard to the species of bird they are intended to capture, 

 and partly to the locality where they are placed. They 

 go under the several denominations of lling-Dona, 



