258 GREAT EXECUTION. 



If the tree resorted to by the " Krams Foglar " be at 

 a considerable distance from the homestead, the fowler not 

 unfrequently constructs a sort of hnt, within gunshot of 

 it, where he patiently awaits their coming, which usually 

 occurs either at daybreak, or in the evening, a little after 

 sunset. He should fire, we are told, when they are just 

 about to alight on the tree, or at the moment of their 

 leaving it ; for when once settled there they soon spread 

 themselves amongst the branches. To guard against this 

 happening, many pluck the berries from all the lower- 

 most boughs, leaving only a certain number near to the 

 crown of the tree. 



Others, again, when all the berries on the tree are 

 gone, or nearly so, have recourse to the clusters that they 

 have stored away during the autumn ; these they tie to 

 a sort of bush, formed of twigs, which, after being attached 

 to a long pole, is hoisted to a little above the tree-top. 

 The " Krams Foglar" on their arrival generally alight on 

 the bush in the first instance ; and as they are commonly 

 closely packed together, great slaughter may then be com- 

 mitted amongst them. It is on record, indeed, that on 

 one occasion as many as fourteen fieldfares, and on 

 another thirty-six wax-wings, were thus killed at a single 

 discharge. 



