184 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



"The method employed by Pinetti is to set the nets on 

 the edge of a city dump or along a hedge row at the edge 

 of a large field. When set at the dumps he walks along 

 the edge until he is opposite the nets, he then walks very 

 slowly across the dumps until about seventy-five yards in 

 front of the nets. He then blows a very shrill whistle, 

 which frightens the birds, and in their effort to escape they 

 fly into the nets. He then goes along the nets and with 

 his thumb nail crushes the birds' skull. When these nets 

 are set along a hedge row on the edge of a field his method 

 is to walk in a zigzag line across the field with a long switch 

 or carriage whip, beating the long grass. In their efforts 

 to escape the frightened birds fly into the hedge row only 

 to find themselves enmeshed in the nets." 



Moral for all game wardens: Look out for a long and 

 slender bag, a satchel and the deadly silk net. 



