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country, the hunter will find that a pit dug 

 in the ground to hide in will give him the 

 best concealment. 



A good-sized flock of " decoys " or stools 

 should be used. With such an array of " de- 

 coys " the plover will turn in, where the 

 ground is good feeding-ground, and good 

 shooting can be had right along when the 

 " flight " is on. If a pit cannot be dug, there 

 should be a slight blind of grass, reeds, corn- 

 stalks, or even some loose branches thrust 

 into the ground, to conceal the hunter's fig- 

 ure. Care should be taken to place the " de- 

 coys " or stools between or along lakes or 

 marshes, if possible, and in localities where 

 plover would come to feed, such as freshly 

 burned prairies, pastures, ploughed land, and 

 meadows where there is wet, bare ground. 

 There is, of course, more or less luck in 

 selecting a place to set up the " stools," but 

 if you notice after a while that the birds are 

 flying across other fields, it is an easy matter 

 to shift the " stools " and build another 

 "blind." 



Sometimes a flock of sand-snipes, or, tech- 

 nically speaking, pectoral sand-pipers, will 



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