. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ft THE 1 1 1 1 J -- n '1 •1' f 1 i L, t fl-» s Ik . " In the lakes where they resort," says the correspondent of that ingenious author, " the most favorite liaunts of the fowl are observed: then in the most sequestered part of this haunt, they cut a ditch about four yards across at the entrance, and about fifty or sixty yards in lengtli, decreasing gradually in width from the entrance to the farther end, which is not more than two feet wide. It is of a circula
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. ft THE 1 1 1 1 J -- n '1 •1' f 1 i L, t fl-» s Ik . " In the lakes where they resort," says the correspondent of that ingenious author, " the most favorite liaunts of the fowl are observed: then in the most sequestered part of this haunt, they cut a ditch about four yards across at the entrance, and about fifty or sixty yards in lengtli, decreasing gradually in width from the entrance to the farther end, which is not more than two feet wide. It is of a circular form, but not bending much for the first ten yards. The banks of the lake, for about ten yards on each side of this ditch (or pipe, as it is called) are kept clear from reeds, coarse herbage, &c., in order tliat the fowl may get on them to sit and dress themselves. Across this ditch, poles on each side, close to the edge of the ditch, are driven into the ground, and the tops boit to each other and tied fast. These poles at the entrance form an-arch, from tho top of which to the water is about ten feet. This arch is made to decrease in height, as the ditch decreases in width, till the farther end is not more than eighteen inches in height. The poles are placed about six feet from each other, and connected together by poles laid lengthwise across the arch and tied together. Over them a net with meshes sufllciently small to prevent tho fowl getting through, is thrown across, and made fast to a reed fence at the entrance, and nine or ten yards up the ditch, and afterwards strongly pegged to the ground. At the farther end of the pipe, a tunnel net, as it is called, is fixed, about four yards in length, of a round form, and kept open by a number of hoops about eighteen inches in diameter, placed at a small distance from each other, to keep it distended. Sup- posing the circular bend of the pipe to be to the right, when you stand with your back to the lake, on the left hand s
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