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expeditious, and wholesale, so the watch kept on the 

 coverts must be continuous. Alarm-guns are very useful 

 by way of prevention in alarming the poachers, and giving 

 timely notice to the keepers of the kind of work being 

 carried on. 



Netting is similarly practised. A long-net is spread, 

 and the pheasants are driven into it by dog or man. It is 

 not so effective as hingling, but it is a murderous procedure 

 in experienced hands. 



The chief means of protecting the birds from the several 

 modes of day poaching alluded to must consist in continual 

 and careful watching of the preserves. Nothing succeeds 

 like this, and the keeper who is always turning up at odd 

 times, and quite unexpectedly, on different portions of the 

 estate, is more feared, and at the same time produces a 

 more beneficial effect on any persons inclined towards 

 these practices of poaching, than anything we know of. 

 It is the practice of some keepers to have particular rounds, 

 which they traverse at certain intervals, with the result 

 that it is extremely easy for poachers to avoid observation, 

 and to shape their courses according to where they know 

 the keepers to be. 



