36 SIIECARRIE'S METHOD OF 



The Calcutta market is well supplied with 

 wild fowl taken chiefly in this manner. It is 

 also well supplied with snipes. Their method 

 of catching them I have not seen,, but have 

 been told they catch them in nooses,, and with 

 nets, probably much in the same manner as I 

 have before described. 



The variety of wild fowl in Bengal is very 

 great. Mr. Taylor the commercial resident 

 at Cojnercolly had a collection of more than 

 thirty different kinds of wild geese widgeon 

 and teal, there are a species of widgeon or teal 

 very common throughout India, that roost 

 and build their nests in trees, and are known to 

 Europeans by the appellation of whistling 

 teal. 



To catch hares requires three people ; fre- 

 quently an old man his wife and child, [a little 

 boy or girl,] compose the three. They carry 

 with them four or five nets, each of them 

 about sixteen feet long, and eighteen inches 

 high ; these nets when set extend forty or fifty 



