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IN the interior of the province Valdivia, South Chili, a species of wood-snipe (Paipayen inc.) is often caught by the natives in the following manner:—When the bird flies into one of the low bushes, which in spots of about three to six metres diameter are found frequently in the wood-meadows there, two men on horseback go round it in the same direction, swinging their lazos over the bush. After ten or more rounds one man slips down from his horse, whilst the other continues, leading his companion's horse behind. Carefully then the first man creeps on to the point, where the paipayen is sitting nearly motionless or stupefied with the rider's circular movements, and kills it by a quick blow of a stick.
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OCHSENIUS, C. Fascination. Nature 23, 508–509 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023508d0
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