Tiring of their fruitless attempts, they would fly away and join the dance of the gyrating crowd.
Some, in despair, would escape by the open window: new-comers would replace them: and until ten o'clock or thereabouts the wire dome of the cover would be the scene of continual attempts at approach, incessantly commencing, quickly wearying, quickly resumed.
Every night the position of the cage was changed.

I placed it north of the house and south; on the ground-floor and the first floor; in the right wing of the house, or fifty yards away in the left wing; in the open air, or hidden in some distant room.

All these sudden removals, devised to put the seekers off the scent, troubled them not at all.

My time and my pains were wasted, so far as deceiving them was concerned.
The memory of places has no part in the finding of the female.

For instance, the day before the cage was installed in a certain room.