232 RED DEER. 



A trap for owls is set on a pole ; the pole 

 is firmly planted in the ground, and has 

 stout nails driven in each side, so that it is 

 easy to climb up, and fix the trap. There is 

 no bait ; the owl comes floating along on 

 his rounds as it grows dusk, and seeing a 

 convenient post alights on it, and is im- 

 mediately caught. This habit of perching 

 on any conspicuous pole is most fatal to 

 these birds, and however many may perish, 

 the remainder never learn the danger. One 

 such pole and trap was set in a fir-planta- 

 tion ; the trees were young, and the pole 

 was just tall enough to reach above the 

 highest boughs, and so to attract the atten- 

 tion of the birds. Upon that single pole 

 no less than two hundred owls were taken, 

 chiefly brown owls, but many white owls, 

 and some few of the horned or long-eared 

 species. 



To draw out an owl from his nest in a 



