VARIOUS WAYS OP TAKING PHEASANTS. 79 



^n case many pheasants answer the call, and from 

 several parts of the wood, keep your first station, and 

 as you hear them make towards you, get your nets 

 ready. Spread them conveniently about you, viz. one 

 pair on one side and another on the other, lying close, 

 without any noise, only that of your call, till you have 

 allured them under your nets, and then stand up to 

 frighten them as before directed, that they may be 

 entangled. 



Another way to take pheasants, which is considered 

 better than the former, is, to be provided with a live 

 cock, (tied down to your net,) who, by his crowing, will 

 draw others in. You must lie concealed in some bush 

 or secret place, and when you see any pheasant come to 

 your net, then draw your line, and the net will fall on it 

 and take it. 



To take pheasants by snares. When you have found 

 their passage out of the wood to their usual places of 

 feeding, there plant a little stake, with a couple of 

 snares of horse-hair, one to lie flat on the ground foV 

 their feet, and the other about the height of their head, 

 to take them by the neck ; and in case there should be 

 more passes than one, do the like to every one of them. 

 Then take a circle, and when you are in a direct line 

 with the pheasants and the snare that you have fitted, 

 make a gentle noise to frighten them. They are also 

 taken by wires in the creeps and rides in covers, and in 

 wheat, where they are bred at harvest time, and near 

 their perching trees in cover. 



