CHAP, vii.] FOWLING AND FISHING. 219 



Southern France. Among them the most important 

 are the snowy owl, now mainly confined to the cold 

 climate of the north, where it feeds on lemmings and 

 various small birds ; the willow grouse, also an Arctic 

 species ; the ptarmigan, now living in the High Alps and 

 Pyrenees as well as in the Arctic regions ; the caper- 

 cailzie and the grey partridge, the wild duck, and an 

 extinct kind of crane (Grus cinerea). A group of 

 birds, probably ducks, unable to fly, and scuttling away 

 as fast as possible, is represented on a rounded lance- 

 head from La Madelaine. 1 The moultiDg season is the 

 chief time for fowling among the Eskimos of the present 

 day. The birds were probably shot with arrows or 

 taken with snares, or with barbed spears, such as those 

 of the Eskimos (see Fig. 90). Some of the barbed 

 arrow or spear points, so commonly found in the caves 

 of France, have most probably been employed for this 

 purpose, as well as for fishing (Figs. 65, 66, 70, 71, 72). 



Fishing. 



The fishes 2 which were caught with barbed spears of 

 the kind noticed above, were the salmon, trout, carp, 



FIG. 84. Pike incised on Canine of Bear, Duruthy Cave, }. 



bream, dace, chub, and pike, of which one engraving has 



1 Ed. Aq. PI. 24, Fig. 5. 2 Ib. p. 210. 



