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THE HOK-BUR. 



To extirpate the birds of prey and four-footed vermin, 

 wliicli swarm everywhere in the Peninsula, wouki be an 

 impossibility, bnt materially to diminish their numbers 

 might be feasible enough, were the inliabitants seriously 

 to put their shoulder to the wheel. Instead of so doing, 

 however, they generally look on with the most perfect 

 iinconcern, let the destruction of game be ever so great, 

 it is true that within the last few years they have begun 

 to bestir themselves, botli as to the preservation of game 

 and the destruction of vermin ; and if the new Game 

 Laws be properly enforced — for hitberto they have 

 been all but a dead letter — a material improvement will, 

 no doubt, take place.^ 



THE HOK-BUH. 



Tlie trap most commonly ixsed for the capture of 

 Hawks, etc., is called the Uok-Bur, and to my personal 



