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Protection in Covert. 



performance, and it may drive them away. They are very 

 easily frightened. If you begin shooting rabbits, etc., they will 

 take the alarm. They cannot stand guns going off constantly 

 in the coverts where they are." 



Imitation pheasants thus made will only last a single season ; 

 should anything more permanent be desired, recourse must 

 be had to those made of wood, which may be cheaply and 

 efficiently constructed on the following plan. Take a fir 



pole, saw it through at an angle of 45° ; this cut, when rounded 

 off, forms the breast of the bird ; a cut at 22-F forms the tail- 

 end. So, by making alternate cuts at 45° and 22-|°, you may 

 cut up the pole without waste, as shown in the plan. A cut 

 lath forms a capital tail, which should be put on nearly perpen- 

 dicular, as pheasants roost with the tail hanging down ; the 



head is easily made out of the upper end of the pole, where 

 too small for the body. Daub over with some oil paint, 

 bore a large hole in the body for the nail, which is to be driven 

 into the branch. Place these mock birds pretty thick w'here 

 pheasants roost. By boring the hole in the body 1 in. diameter 

 they will, when placed on a nail, move with the wind, when the 

 deception is perfect enough, as they are difficult to distinguish 

 from a pheasant, even in daylight. Whatever kind of mock 

 pheasant is employed, they should not be placed too near 

 public roads or footpaths, and in those cases in which they are 

 liable to observation during the day, they should be moved 

 frequently. 



Alarm guns set in coverts with wires leading in different 

 directions are most valuable as alarming poachers, and 



