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think not to approach them here, if you can 

 see them how much more do you yourself loom 

 up? At the first attempt to get within range 

 away goes every bird in sight with a loud chorus 

 of whistling derision, flying a hundred yards, 

 alighting to run as much farther and then be- 

 ginning to feed with watchful eye upon the 

 stranger, each ready to leave in an instant. 



A western friend tells me of the method of 

 hunting Uplands in his country, on the prairies : 

 a comfortable way of gunning in hot weather. 

 Two or three men drive in a wagon over the 

 grass ground to approach the birds, which will 

 generally allow a team to come quite near. 

 When the birds begin to show signs of uneasi- 

 ness the sportsmen jump out and blaze away. 

 Our westerner thought that it might be a good 

 plan of campaign for New England, but one trip 

 was enough to change his mind. The rugged 

 nature of our country and the prospect of lifting 

 the outfit over a stone wall or picking the horse 

 off a barbed wire fence every few minutes some- 

 what upset his theories before the day was over. 



I wish to note a circumstance which to me 

 seems quite unusual: on one plover excursion 

 my companion and I saw an Upland rise from 



