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describing. As it is the habit of these birds to get down low at 

 night into the warmer ravines, and feed upwards along the crests 

 of the spurs, they stop the progTess of the covey by a zigzag 

 barrier about two or three feet high, made up of twigs and short 

 pieces of bamboo struck in the ground, which is rapidly formed 

 and extended a short distance down the hill on either side. A 

 narrow opening is left here and there, generally at the re-enter- 

 ing angles, and in this the noose is set, just above two cross 

 sticks, and in the same plane, at exactly the height of the bird's 

 breast. The noose is made of a thin strip peeled off the outside 

 of a bamboo, and tied to the end of a pliant stick, drawn down 

 like a spring, and hitched into a saw-nick in a bamboo peg, 

 into which the flat form of the spring forming the noose fits 

 closely and accurately. All the materials grow on the spot, and 

 in a few hours hundreds of barriers and snares can be made and 

 set. The birds are often caught alive by the legs." 



{To he continued). 



