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come near him, the bird-catcheir who had 
placed himself at some distance nailing 
the event, approaches and takes the prey 
thus delivered to him. 
They are likewise to be caught wilh 
cones of paper baited with raw flesh. Into 
this cone the bird introduces his head to 
devour the bait, which is placed near the 
bottom, the paper being besmeared with 
bird-lime sticks to the feathers of the neck, 
and he remains hooded. Unable to get 
rid of this bandage, which covers his eyea 
entirely, the bird rises almost perpendi- 
cularly into the air, the better to avoid 
striking against any object; till, quite 
exhausted, he sinks down near the spot 
from whence he mounted. 
As these birds are in general very shy 
and difficult to be got near by a person 
with a gun, the following method has been 
sometimes practised with success. A 
living Crow is to be put into a cage, and 
exposed in the fields; his call generally 
attracts the attention of others in the 
neighbourhood, who flock round the cage. 
