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tendency to keep close to home when they 

 do begin to hunt for themselves. 



The devices for the protection of nests 

 and sitting birds beyond the confines of 

 the rearing-field are many and various ; 

 most have but a short-lived efficacy. The 

 nests may be completely wired in with 

 netting, or a strand of the thin wire 

 known as ' bouquet ' wire stretched across 

 each side of the nest to trip and scare the 

 marauder. Among simple devices the 

 luminous disk is probably the most 

 effective : set up about the level of a fox's 

 nose, two to a nest in a fence, three round 

 a nest in the open, these disks have been 

 found to answer their purpose well by 

 many who have given them an extended 

 trial. 



The site of a nest makes all the differ- 

 ence to its probable security, and it is well 

 to remember that artificially made nests 

 placed in suitable spots, with the added 

 inducement of a few dummy eggs, will 

 always attract pheasant hens, however 

 carefully they may be concealed, and that 



