These are covered lightly over with small sticks, boughs, etc.

and the animal going to drink, hops upon them, and falls into the pit without being able to get out again.

I have only known this method of taking the kangaroo practised in Western Australia, between Swan River and King George's Sound, The emu is taken similarly to the kangaroo.

It is speared in the first, third, and fourth methods I have described.

It is also netted like the kangaroo, indeed with the same net, only that the places selected for setting it are near the entrance to creeks, ravines, flats bounded by steep banks, and any other place where the ground is such as to hold out the hope, that by driving up the game it may be compelled, by surrounding scouts, to pass the place where the net is set.