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down-wind side must therefore be well ahead as at 

 A in the accompanying diagram before the drivers 

 at B have begun to move or have flushed the birds, 

 c is the centre of the line of guns to which it is 

 desired to drive the birds, and the arrow points in the 

 direction of the wind. When once the birds are up 



FIG. 9 



and in full swing down wind, an army would not turn 

 them towards the point c. But if while still squatting 

 on the ground they hear or see men passing on at A, 

 they will, when they rise, push on to c to avoid them. 

 If the wind be heavy, there is little fear of their 

 breaking out at D ; and one judicious driver of ex- 

 perience creeping a little ahead of the others on that 



