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different.) When their feeding-grounds and roost- 

 ing-places are near together, they may fly quite 

 low, particularly if against a strong head-wind, 

 and good sport may then be had on the pass- 

 ways. Single ones may frequently be called 

 within gun-shot, when coming in to roost (though 

 never when in the fields), by imitating their call- 

 notes correctly — an achievement, however, rather 

 difficult to most persons, as they are pitched in so 

 high a key. A slight resemblance to the note may 

 be expressed by the sounds ela, eleck, ela, ela, 

 eleck. They are exceedingly acute, sharp-sighted 

 birds, and can " climb " out of gun-shot (as the 

 hunters term their flying upwards when frightened 

 at the appearance of danger beneath them) faster 

 than most wild-fowl. 



In the corn-fields they are frequently shot from 

 holes in the ground or from blinds built of corn- 

 stalks in a manner similar to that described in 

 the foregoing chapter. No. 3 shot, Chicago size, 

 is sufficiently large for brant shooting, as these 

 birds are not very tenacious of life. They are 

 rarely found along the Eastern coast. 



