. Complete wildfowler . ^ ^. HARD HIT ! DUCK SHOOTING OVER DECOYS I SHORE-SHOOTING 95 perfection is claimed. The modulation of notes, their lengths,and reed-tones are easily mastered by the apt learner, but theventriloquial effects are not. The most effective manner of producing this special callingis to whistle softly, and lower the head to mimic distance forthe *all in order—approach calls, and to raise the head andpipe cleaily for what sound as the close-at-hand signal notes here chiefly refer to curlew calling. It must be notedthat, although I have chosen the corncrake to instance
. Complete wildfowler . ^ ^. HARD HIT ! DUCK SHOOTING OVER DECOYS I SHORE-SHOOTING 95 perfection is claimed. The modulation of notes, their lengths,and reed-tones are easily mastered by the apt learner, but theventriloquial effects are not. The most effective manner of producing this special callingis to whistle softly, and lower the head to mimic distance forthe *all in order—approach calls, and to raise the head andpipe cleaily for what sound as the close-at-hand signal notes here chiefly refer to curlew calling. It must be notedthat, although I have chosen the corncrake to instance mymeaning, its use of ventriloquism is to deceive the intruderwithout alarm to its kind, whereas in the case of shore-birds itis adopted to impress or convey something they are unable tosay otherwise. I cannot go further, but I do know that inusing similar methods of calling, lies one of the main secrets inshore-bird and wildfowl calling. A proof that the finer arts ofcalling birds in our isles have not been much studied,
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