CATCHING BIRDS. 27 



to which horse hair nooses are attached for 

 catching larger birds, and a bag or net to car- 

 ry their game. 



Thus equipped, they sally forth, and as they 

 proceed through the different covers, they 

 use calls, for such birds, as generally resort, 

 there, which from constant practise is well 

 known to them, and if any birds answer their 

 call they prepare accordingly for catching 

 them : supposing it to be a bevy of quail, they 

 continue calling them, until they get quite 

 close, they then arm the top of their rod with 

 a feather smeared with bird-lime, and pass it 

 through the loop hole in their frame of am- 

 b;ish, and to which they continue adding other 

 parts, until they have five or six out, which 

 tiiey use with great dexterity, and touch one of 

 tae quail with the feather, which adheres to 

 tnem; they then withdraw the rod, arm it 



yey of Partridges, and to my great mortification found it 

 to be a Shecarrie 



