CHAPTER XVI. 



METHOD OF CAPTURING DUN-BIRDS AT THE FLIGHT-POND. 



" And urge them forth in wild affright, 

 While Hubert stands, with ready net 

 Carefully o'er each entrance set, 

 To intercept them in their flight." 



Annals of Sporting, vol. ii. 



THE above illustration, though of necessity upon a very small scale, 

 represents a flight-pond with four flight-nets and four decoy-pipes. 

 Three of the flight-nets are not in use, but are supposed to be lashed 

 down ; the other is in actual operation, being sketched at the moment 

 of capturing a large flight of pochards, consisting of several hundred. 

 It will be observed that a few of the leading-birds are permitted to 



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