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in great numbers. They are caught by- 

 putting up a fieve, or a fquare open box, 

 made of boards, in the places they frequent. 

 The people ftrew ibme oats under the fieve, 

 and lift it up on one fide by a little flick ; 

 and as foon as the partridges are got under 

 the fieve, in order to pick up the oats, it 

 falls, and thev are caught alive. Sometimes 

 they get feveral partridges at once. When 

 they run in the bufhes, you can come very 

 near them, without ftarting them. When 

 they fleep at night, they come together in 

 an heap. They fcratch in the bufhes and 

 upon the field, like common chickens. In 

 fpring they make their nefts, either under 

 a bum or in the maize fields, or on the hills 

 in the open air : they fcratch fome hay to- 

 gether, into which they lay about thirteen 

 white eggs. They eat feveral forts of corn, 

 and feeds of grafs. They have likewife 

 been feen eating the berries of fumach, or 

 rhus glabra. Some people have taken them 

 young, and kept them in a cage till they 

 were tame : then they let them go ; and 

 they followed the chickens, and never left 

 the court-yards. 



The inclofures made ufe of in Penfylva- 

 nia and New yerjev, but efpecially in New 

 York, are thofe, which on account of their 

 Terpentine form refembling worms, are called 



D 1 worm* 



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