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Pheasants. 



side netting extends to about 8ft. in length, the end-pieces 

 being partly laced together, and turned inwards to form 

 the entrances shown. Sufficient of the end-pieces is left 

 unlaced to admit of the entrance of the birds, which, having 

 passed into the catcher, cannot make their way out. The 

 supporting standards are made sufficiently long to admit 

 of their being driven into the ground. 



The dimensions given 

 may always be ex- 

 tended if the number 

 of birds to be caught 

 up be considerable ; 

 but the sizes given 

 provide a very handy 

 trap, which may be 

 readily set up and 

 moved from place to 

 place as required. Some 

 dari or maize placed 

 as food within the 

 catching-pen, and with 

 one or two lines of 

 scattered corn leading 

 up to the entrances, is 



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Wood-Pigeons or catching-up Pheasants 



lure the birds easily 



into the trap. It may be used successfully to take 

 almost any kind of bird, if the mesh of the netting and size 

 of the entrance-places be altered to suit the quarry. I 

 have employed it most successfully for wood-pigeons. 



There are, in addition to this manner of catching-up 

 pheasants in large numbers, various kinds of pheasant- 

 traps which take a single bird at a time, and may be 

 employed with advantage where it is not necessary to 



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