BIRD FOWLING IxxxiX 



several references to the employment of nets for capturing 

 Guillemots and Puffins at the Faroes. Thus, for example : 

 ' Sometimes four men will go in a boat under the cliffs, where 

 the young birds [Common Guillemots] who have not yet begun 

 to breed, sit on the lower ledges, and then with nets at the end 

 of long poles, two of the crew catch the birds, either as they sit 

 or as they fly past.' 



