26 SHECARRIE'S METHOD OF 



speckled), two or three Shecarries go together, 

 and proceed in the following manner. A line 

 of thirty or forty yards long is fastened to the 

 ground with wooden pegs at each extremity, 

 which is then elevated by props to the height of 

 about eighteen inches; to this line, nooses of 

 horse-hair are fixed at a distance from each other of 

 about two feet, and when the birds pass under the 

 line, they are caught in the nooses by their neck. 



Sometimes a similar line is fastened to the 

 ground, and left lying there with all the nooses 

 spread, and as they pass over them they are 

 caught by the legs : this line is never laid where 

 there is much jungle. When the line or lines are 

 ready, they go off to a considerable distance, and 

 beat the bushes in a direction towards them. 



The corn in India is never put into ricks, or 

 threshed, as in this country. As soon as they cut 

 it, it is collected into heaps in the same field, on 

 an even piece of ground, and a spot of about 

 eight cloth yards in diameter is smoothed and 

 plastered over with clay, cow dung and water. 

 In the middle of it a post is driven into the 

 ground, to which two, four, or six bullocks are 

 linked, according to the opulence of the cultivator: 



