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until a flock arrrives, which they generally do late, between 
11 and 12 o'clock. Seeing the stuffed ones apparently asleep, 
with their heads under their wings, they gradually alight, and as 
Soon as they have settled down for the night, the Arabs at a given 
signal pull all at once on the ropes, the two sides of the net fall 
towards the middle, and perhaps the whole flock, or the greater 
part of it, is secured. 
Dr. Couvidon adds that he has seen Wild Ducks captured on 
Lake Menzaleh in a similar manner. 


THE LATE WILLIAM BRODRICK. 
To “ give honour where honour is due” has always been our 
aim, and, when death has robbed us of a master of his craft, to 
testify with gratitude to the worth of his example. A succession 
of keen votaries of the kindred sports of hunting, fishing, and 
shooting has at all times precluded the risk of their extinction 3 
but it has been otherwise with the equally ancient though less 
practised sport of hawking, which, but for the efforts of a few, in 
the face of many obstacles, has often stood in danger of being 
abandoned. As one who by his published works and private 
enterprise has done perhaps more than any of his generation to 
popularise and encourage the art of falconry in England, the 
name of William Brodrick deserves to be remembered, and his 
recent death, at the ripe age of seventy-four, will be regretted 
almost as much by those who knew him only by reputation as by 
the many personal friends whom he has left behind him. 
Mr. Brodrick died on December 2Ist last, at Littlehill, 
Chudleigh, North Devon, where he had lived for more than 
twenty years, esteemed by all who knew him. Having formerly 
held the command of the Chudleigh Volunteers, a number of his 
old corps, commanded by Colonel Lord Clifford, attended his 
funeral, eight of the non-commissioned officers officiating as 
bearers. Born in London, where his father was a barrister of 
some eminence, William Brodrick was educated at Harrow and 
University College, Oxford ; and, although he was wont to say 
& propos of his lifelong love for natural history, that “all he 
learned at Harrow was how to catch birds,” yet, as he took his 
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