Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . swallowedone of these baits, they lom to it, and invariably, on its fiying, its wings CATCHING DOVES. 283 get entangled in the horse-liair, which is kept hanging down by theweight attached to it, and the bird is thus soon caught. The natives of Galata, to the Avest of IMursina, have also a simpleyet efHcacious method of capturing wild doves; these, like all other birdsof passage, on their first arrival, fly iu a direct Hne, never deviating thi
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . swallowedone of these baits, they lom to it, and invariably, on its fiying, its wings CATCHING DOVES. 283 get entangled in the horse-liair, which is kept hanging down by theweight attached to it, and the bird is thus soon caught. The natives of Galata, to the Avest of IMursina, have also a simpleyet efHcacious method of capturing wild doves; these, like all other birdsof passage, on their first arrival, fly iu a direct Hne, never deviating thirtypaces to tl.\e right or left; the people know this, and in the twilight be-fore sunrise they place across their road a net six feet high by fifty each side of the road, six or eight men stand with crooked branchesof trees about three feet long in their hands, and when they see thedoves coming, they throw these dark branches up in the air, and thedoves imagining them to be hawks coming down tipon them fly verylow, and consequently come in contact with the nets, and as they go inflights of thirty or more, many are taken in this way. ^/^. SCULFTUKED ROCKS AT ANAZARBA : FROM A SKKTCU BY MR. E. B. B. BARKER.
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