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of damage, they should find themselves in the dark 

 from the moment they are caught ; they are then 

 quiet. But if a pheasant can see a small opening 

 admitting light, it will beat its head severely at that 

 point in its efforts to escape. 



Keep for the special purpose of catching up wild 

 pheasants three or four hencoops, one-third larger 

 than the usual ones, to place at the different spots at 



FIG. 11. C 



i CATCHING 



WILD PHEASANTS ALIVE. 



which the birds are fed. These coops to be without 

 bars and quite open, with grooves in which their 

 fronts slide freely up and down (fig. 11). 



Feed round and in a coop for about a week before 

 niiiking a capture ; then remove the temporary wedges 

 that previously kept the slide front from falling and 

 r?ubjititute a stick, as shown in fig. 11. Pull (from 

 behind a tree some score yards distant i the wire that 

 twitches away the stick, the moment you perceive a 



