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tiiiis on horseback, and would shoot them at from (50 

 to 150 yards distance. This gentleman believed that 

 birds of prey, with a very few exceptions, were (he 

 worst foes thai pouHry and game had to contend 

 against, and all large-sized Hawks and Owls fell be 

 fore his nnerring aim, wlii( li caused the death, during 

 the last twerty years of his life, of between 1,500 and 

 1,()00 Hawks, besides a large number of Owls and a 

 few Kaglcs. Friend Yarnall, when seventy-four years 

 (if age, killed, in one winier, T2 oul of 74 Hawks that 

 lie shot a( wilh liis mu/'.xic loading rifle that carried 

 aboul 100 bellels (n llu- pound. One hundred and 

 .sev(>n(y-si.\ Hawks was the gi'calesi number he ever 

 killed in any one year. Rifle .shooting, however, in a 

 populc.us farming cmrimnnity, is dangerous and, if 

 practiced, too great care cannot be taken. Indeed, it 

 is the safest plan to not do it. 



■vVin'j.Ni s.Novv cox'ioK.s Till'; ouound. 

 When Ihe ground is covered with snow the grass 

 suit, of course, cannot be used as a disguise, and if a 

 horse and sleigh is not obtainable, a dress of pure 

 white material— muslin or any other light weight 

 goods, consisting of pants, loose blouse, hat and white 

 gloves — is a disguise that will enable the hunter, with 

 reasonable caution, to appro<ich on foot birds of prey 

 in the same manner as when attired in the gra.ss suit. 

 The gnu liarrcls should be covered wilh white mater- 



Thc aullior is indebted in I)i-. Isaiah F. Everliart, the 

 well-known traveler and naturalist, of Scranton, Pa., 

 for an account of a uni«iue method of killing birds of 

 prey when migrating, which is adopted by farmers 



