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berne«5 grains, or any substance on which the kinds feed 

 should be strewed round the spot. Many of the 

 Hard-Billed small birds may be taken by this mode, as also, 

 numerous kinds of the large granivorous kinds, likewise the 

 waders, particularly the Snipe, Woodcock, and their affini- 

 ties. . 



The Soft-Billed small birds, may mostly be caught either 

 in common trap-cages, or in what are generally called 

 Nightingale traps, which should be baited with meal-worms, 

 or other insects. 



Water Fowl, particularly those that dive, may be taken 

 by drawing the places to which they resort, with a common 

 Drag-Net, one person should be sent forward up the sides of 

 the stream, but out of sight of the birds, and at a given 

 time, when the net is arranged, should return by the water 

 side, and endeavour to alarm the birds ; most kinds of 

 which dive immediately, and continue so to do, as long as 

 the objects of alarm are apparent, most, if not all divers, 

 pursue their course down the stream, if it be a river, to its 

 influx with the sea ; or if a creek, or branch of a river, to the 

 river itself; and if the net is judiciously managed, great 

 numbers may be thus obtained. Practice is of course requi- 

 site to command success in any of the proposed methods, 

 but with a little attention, any one may attain to consider- 

 able perfection. 



The plan already alluded to, under the head Bat-Fowling, 

 may be pursued with considerable effect, particularly on 



