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Another common plan of circumventing water fowl 

 in the winter-time is for the fowler to conceal himself 

 behind a sort of " screen," constructed of blocks of ice, 

 in the near vicinity of a " Wak," and to shoot them on 

 their arrival. Sometimes he makes use of "Wettar"; 

 l)ut ill general they arc little needed, for when the birds 

 are half famished, the open water alone is a sufficient 

 inducement. We read of an individual in the Gulf of 

 Bothnia who during one particular winter thus killed, 

 exclusive of other fowl, so many of the Long-tailed Hareld 

 in one and the same ""Wak," that tlieir feathers alone 

 weighed upwards of sixty pounds, and occasionally as 

 many as from twenty to thii-ty at a single discharge ! 



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We are told, moreover, that in some of the Scandi- 

 navian " SkJirgardar " neither the gun, the " Wettar," the 



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