The more common method is to catch them with a running noose, or little lazo, made of the stem of an ostrich's feather, fastened to the end of a long stick.

A boy on a quiet old horse will frequently thus catch thirty or forty in a day.

In Arctic North America the Indians catch the Varying Hare by walking spirally round and round it, when on its form: the middle of the day is reckoned the best time, when the sun is high, and the shadow of the hunter not very long.

(3/1.

Hearne's "Journey" page 383.) On our return to Maldonado, we followed rather a different line of road.