Lxxxvi BIRDS OF DUMFEIESSHIRE 
It is satisfactory to be able to state that of more recent 
years this ' custom ' has not been fomid to repay the labour 
of setting the nets. So many valueless fowl are emeshed 
by the use of the " flight-net," that it is hoped this engine of 
destruction may ere long fall into disuse, or, better still, 
become prohibited by law. 
