. Errances en Amérique du Sud, au nord-ouest des Etats-Unis et aux Antilles dans les années 1812, 1816, 1820 et 1824 : avec des instructions originales pour la parfaite conservation des oiseaux, etc. pour les armoires de l'histoire naturelle . cute-les s'il pouvait s'aider lui-même, mais il pourrait circum-ventiler, et a fait ainsi efficacement par le biais de la houle. Les réserves étaient situées à une certaine distance de la maison, de sorte que les braconniers pouvaient faire une rapide sur route et de transporter leur butin avant qu'ils puissent être saisis. SoWaterton a posé un plan profond. D'abord, il a planté près de la maison, et juste en face de sa fenêtre, un clu

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. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history . cute them if he could help himself, but he could circum-vent them, and did so effectually by means of the holly. The preserves were situated at some distance from thehouse, so that the poachers could make a rapid inroad andcarry off their booty before they could be seized. SoWaterton laid a deep scheme. First he planted near thehouse, and just opposite his window, a clump of yews, onwhich trees pheasants are fond of perching. Next he sur-rounded them with a thick holly hedge, leaving only onelittle gap, which could be closed by a strong padlockedgate. Then, leaving the trees to grow, he set about theother preparations. He made a number of wooden pheasants, and did it inthe simplest manner imaginable. He got some smallscaffolding poles and cut them diagonally into pieces about 60 BIOGKAPHY. as long as a pheasants body. A lath fastened to one endmade a capital tail, and all that was needed was to trimthe shoulder to the neck, and put a head on the other end, a nail doing duty for a beak.. STRUCTURE OF WOODEN PHEASANT. By the time that the trees had grown sufficiently for hispurpose he had made about a couple of hundred of dummypheasants. He then threw a few sacks full of beansinside the holly hedge, and laid a train of beans into thepreserve. The birds, finding the beans on the ground, naturally followed the trail, and reaching so abundant asupply of food as they saw inside the liedge, flew over itand feasted to their hearts content. Then, not caring tofly, after having gorged themselves, they settled for thenight in the yews. Meanwhile the w^ooden pheasants were nailed on thetrees in the preserve, and so exactly did tliey resemble tlieactual birds that in the dark no one could detect theimposition. Even in daylight the dummy so closely re-presen

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