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whole of them are shot. But the man must be very 

 careful, we are told, not to pick up any of the birds 

 until the butchery is fully accomplished, for should 

 he prematurely leave his place of concealment, the still 

 surviving birds would become aware of his presence and 

 might not afterwards respond to his call-note. 



When, however, the fowler wishes by Luck to take the 

 Capercali, or other of the large forest game, alive, he pro- 

 vides himself with a so-called Stick-Nat,* in principle 

 the same as the fisherman's common flue-net, that is, 

 the birds are not driven into it par force, but make 

 prisoners of themselves. 



This net, in its original state, is usually sixty to seventy 

 fathoms in length, and twenty to thirty inches in depth, 

 with the meshes some three inches square; and generally 

 each of its sides is provided with a " walling." The 

 Telnar, answering to our cork and lead lines, consist 

 of stout packthread, but instead of being fastened to the 

 net itself, they are merely run through its outer meshes, 

 and hence the net travels on them in like manner as a 

 curtain on a brass rod. Short sticks, previously blackened 

 by fire and sharpened at the lower end, for more ready 

 insertion in the ground, are fixed cross-wise to the net, 

 or rather to the telnar, ten to twelve feet apart. The 

 telnar are about one-third shorter than the net itself, and 

 consequently there is a considerable quantity of loose 

 netting called Los-Gam. On the net being set, this loose 

 netting is drawn up in folds to the several cross-sticks 

 mentioned, and when the Capercali runs into the net, the 

 Los- Gam forms a sort of bag about the bird, making 

 escape next to impossible. The net should be dyed either 

 green or grey. 



; Made from very strong linen thread, the meshes being quadrangular 

 (not rhomboidal, as with fish nets). 



