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peoples. Our few descriptions will serve to 

 illustrate the ingenuity displayed, the 

 complexity of the mechanical principles 

 involved in some of them, and the ex- 

 treme simplicity of others. Previous 

 writers have described many of these in 

 detail, and we content ourselves with re- 

 ferring the curious reader to their ac- 

 counts.^ 



The Klemantans and some of the 

 Kenyahs catch a small ground pigeon 

 (Chalcophaps indica) in large numbers by 

 the aid of a pipe or whistle, by blowing 

 softly on which the cooing notes of the 

 bird are closely imitated. The instrument 

 consists of a piece of large bamboo 

 closed at one end and having a small hole 

 about its middle (Fig. 25). The hunter, 

 concealed behind a screen of leafy branches, 

 blows across this hole through a long 

 slender tube of bamboo ; and when a bird 

 approaches the whistle, he slips over its 

 head a fine noose attached to the end of 

 a light bamboo and, drawing it behind 

 the screen, puts it alive into a cage. 



Small parrots are sometimes caught 

 with bird-lime, made with the juice of a 

 rubber-tree. 



The Gathering of Jungle 

 Produce 



The principal natural pro- 

 ducts gathered by the people 



^ A good account, taken mainly from /^ FiG. 25. 

 Skertchly, of many traps may be found in Mr. 

 Ling Roth's well-known work. The Natives of 

 Sarawak and British North Borneo, London, 1896 ; and also in McPherson's 

 work on Fowling. 



