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lakes and morasses with wliich the northern forest') 
abound ; an<l to stalk the same in tire wixiter-time 
with A ijood ri6e is no ignoble amusement, 
'* Amonfj; other expedienta resorted to in the 
nortlieni forests, for the dejstruction of the capercailziss 
is the folloTivingf : — Diirmg the autumnal months, af- 
ter flashing and dispersTna- the hrood, people place 
themselves in ambush, and imitate the cry of ihe old 
or young hircls<, a«t circumstanceM may require* By 
thns attracting them to the spot, they are often en- 
abled to sUoot the whole brood in successioiu The 
manner in which this is practised may be better un- 
derstood from what Mr Greiff says on the subject, 
" * After the brood hm lieen diapersed, an(I you 
see tlie growth they have acquired, the dogs are to 
be bound up* and a hut formed preci.^ely on the spot 
where the birds were driven from, in which rou 
place yourself to call ; and you adapt your call ac- 
cording to the greater or leas size of your young 
birds. When they are m large an the hen, you ought 
not to begin to call until an hour after iltcy have 
been fSusbed i sbouhl you vi\st\i to take tbem aliv">, 
the common net is placed round him who calls- To- 
wards the quarter the hen flies, there are seldom to 
be found any of the youncf birds, for she tries by her 
cackling to draw the dogs after her, and from her 
young ones. As lo»^ as you wish to shoot, you 
must not go out of your hut to coilpL't the birds you 
have shot. When the hen suiswers the call, or lows 
Hke a cow, she has eitfter got a young one with her, 
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