THE RATLINES. 



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Nets, for instance, are set in these openings for such 

 birds as obtain their food by diving, and probably 

 but few of those that alight in the open water escape 

 with their lives. It is recorded that near to the town of 

 Helsingborg, in Scania, more than three hundred fowl of 

 one kind or another were some years ago thus captured 

 in a single night. 



Fig. 1. 



THK RATLINES. 



At other times snares are substituted for nets in the 

 ' Wakar," or it may be in square holes that are cut in the 



