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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



caged, my brother took a photograph of a receiver 

 belonging to two young fellows, who had their 

 nets spread alongside a plot of mangold wurzel. 

 The top of the cage has two circular holes in it. 

 These have each the leg of an old cotton stocking 

 tacked neatly round them, and once the captured 

 bird has been thrust down the ingenious funnel 



BIRD-CATCHER'S RECEIVER 



thus formed its chances of escape are very small 

 indeed. 



Bird-catchers carry two tin bottles out with them 

 one containing tea or such other beverage, as 

 fortune will afford, and the other water for their 

 birds, about whose welfare they are, as a rule, most 

 solicitous. 



The labour of carrying the nets, call-birds, and 

 other paraphernalia about the country is divided be- 

 tween the two men in partnership, and the picture 

 opposite illustrates how the plant is conveyed from 

 place to place. The handkerchief in the* hand of 

 the man on the left contains the bodies of such 



