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used to bold vertically a net about two rnetrcs wide and six metres lonA. Vkrss or lour ok tkese nets vers tkus set up end to end, tke louver corners ok tke nets bsinA psAAed down bv sticks. X lonA cord ran krorn tke props to a Arass-and- bouAk skelter sorne kundred vards awa/. One or rnore decov Aeese vers placed on tke Around near tke net. IVKsn tke snare was set and tke Aeese aliAkted near b^, tke string was pulled bv tke kunter concealed in tke skelter, tke props Aave wa^, and tke net ksll on tke kirds as tkev rose, and keld tkern till tke kunter could reack tkern. Ducks were, in tkis rexion, also cauAkt witk nets in anotker wav. I^ke nets vers set on Kent sticks krorn tke kank out over tke water's edAe. IVKen tke ducks earns to sleep, tke;r toucksd strings wkick released tke nets, and were cauAkt under tke nets as tke^ kell. 'kke cord-and-noose metkod akove described was also in use kere. 44 (1°--). Sslmon-Aix. Orows were cauAkt in tke Laeramento Valley kor tkeir skins, wkick vs re used in tke makinA ok keatker cloaks. low, buskv willow was selected, and in it, at sorne keiAkt krorn tke Around, a srnall nest or platkorrn was kuilt, reacked bv a rude ladder. Leated in tkis nest, a rnan was completely concealed. 1?wo liZkt sticks, krorn two rnetres and a Kall to tkree rnetres lonA, vere tken taken, and tied toAetker loosely at one end. dksse vers tken spread out like a V, and between tke open arrns a net was stretcked. Rv openinA or closinA tke V-skaped krarne, tkis net was opened or skut like a kan. One rnan tken kid in tke nest in tke tree, enterinA it akter dark, and kad witk kirn one ok tksss koldinA-nsts. Otker rnsn tken went about and scared up tke sleepinA birds, wkick were driven towards tke concealed kunter, wko, as tke birds passed b^ ovsrkead, swept out Kis net, closinA tke sticks as Ke did so, and in tkis wa^ okten cauAkt a considerable number ok birds. Dels were speared, and also salmon. In catckinA salmon, tke ordinary salmon-AiA is used (DiZ. 49), tke points formerly beinA made ok bone, but now, as a rule, ok a steel-wire nail and