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or when, after being scared by the latter, they were 

 flying from tree to tree. 



There are dogs in Scandinavia, nevertheless, whose 

 sagacity teaches them not to " give tongue " to the Hazel - 

 Hen when "treed," seeing that it will not " trycka " to 

 them in like manner as the Capercali and the Black-Cock ; 

 and when, therefore, the bird has flown up into a pine, 

 the dog stations himself a few paces from its stem, and by 

 merely wagging his tail and whining in the quietest 

 manner possible, gives his master to understand where 

 the quarry is to be found. 



Even when the Hazel-Hen is " treed," a practised eye 

 is often required to discover its whereabouts, for it 

 frequently sits so shrouded amongst the branches of an 

 umbrageous pine as not to be readily discernible, at least 

 to the casual observer. It is so cunning, moreover, as to 

 regulate its movements by those of the fowler ; for whilst 

 he is on the look-out for the bird on one side of the tree, it 

 creeps to the opposite, leaving during its progress little 

 more than its head exposed, and that solely for the 

 purpose of keeping the enemy in sight. 



The usual way, however, of shooting the Hazel-Hen 

 is without any dog, and solely with the aid of the so- 

 called IJjerp-pipa, or pipe. This implement, which is 

 much less in size than one's finger, and constructed of wood 

 or metal, or it may be " the wing-bone of a Black-Cock," 

 emits a soft whistling sound, that can be varied according 

 to the call-note of the bird. Such a pipe is readily manu- 

 factured. Often, indeed, when we have accidentally met 

 with a Hazel-Hen, has my man with his knife alone made 

 one out of a sapling of some pithy tree, and that in the 

 course of a very few minutes. 



Provided with this implement, the fowler traverses the 

 forest in all silence, and when he has succeeded in flush- 

 ing the brood, ho after a time begins to " Licka," when 



