With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . BIRD-CALL. Bird-catchers generally work in pairs, and whilstone man attends to the nets the otlier heats the adjoining ground in orderto send the hirds towardshis companion, Avho imitatestheir call to perfection with alittle tin instrument made inthe form of a tlattish drumwitli a hole through thecentre. This is placed be-tween the callers lips, and thedesired notes reproduced byforcing the breath quickly tlnough it. Mr. Sways-land astonished me Ijy his skill in fetching flocksof
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . BIRD-CALL. Bird-catchers generally work in pairs, and whilstone man attends to the nets the otlier heats the adjoining ground in orderto send the hirds towardshis companion, Avho imitatestheir call to perfection with alittle tin instrument made inthe form of a tlattish drumwitli a hole through thecentre. This is placed be-tween the callers lips, and thedesired notes reproduced byforcing the breath quickly tlnough it. Mr. Sways-land astonished me Ijy his skill in fetching flocksof Larks in full flight from considerable altitudes tothe ground withit, and quicklytaught me howto use it witheffect. We next vis-ited a man whohad his netsspread along asteepish had sevencall-birds, con-sisting of twoLinnets, a Gold-finch, Greenfinch,Chafiinch, Siskin,and Redpoll,each in a small green cage, disposed as represented in our illustra-tion on ])age 270. He had also four .hickey-l)irds, attached to play sticks situated between the. CALL-BIRD CAGE.
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