Identifier: trailstrampsinal01thom (find matches)
Title: Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, William S., 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Birds
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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factthat the sphere of influence of a particularcock is limited to a portion of a tract of wood-land as well defined as though surroundedby a fence. If you can conceal yourselfin his zone and imitate his call, the bird willapproach very near. In my younger days
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a eSO 43 a; a o w ON 250 In the Springtime many were the cardinals I trapped in thefollowing manner: In the mating seasonwe would take a caged bird into the woods,the cage covered from the time we left homeuntil we reached the woods. Selecting alikely place, we set our net, and attacheda rope which led to a blind constructed ofboughs put together as naturally as possible.Then when all was ready we lifted the coverof the cage. The sudden emergence fromdarkness to light seemed to fill the very soulof the caged bird with gladness, and evenbefore we could conceal ourselves behind theblind it would break forth into the sweetestmelodies, filling the woods with its songs, asthough once again free in its erstwhile haunts.Ere the first notes die away in the distance,like an echo comes the answer from theproprietary lord of that particular sectionof woodland, as though he seemed to say:Some miscreant has entered my shadybowers to entice my fair one away, so I 11teach him a lesson and

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