SDf jrotoHnn;. 105 



0/ the Haunts of Fowl. 



THc thins of ereateft moment for the Fowkr to un- 

 derftand, is the Haunts of Fowl. In order there- 

 unto you are to underftand, that all forts of greater 

 FowUiz. thofe who divide the foot, have their refi- 

 dence by the edge of Rivers that are (hallow, Brooks, 

 and Plafties oi water : and thefe appear not m V locks, 

 but you fhall fee here one fingle, there a couple, and the 

 likev which makes them difficult to be taken by En- 

 gine or Device •, but they are the bcft flights for Haw]^ 

 that can be imagined. 



Likewife thefe Fowl delight m low and boggy pla- 

 ces i and the more fedgie, marilh and rotten tuch 

 grounds are, the fitter they are for the hauntmgofthele 



\hey love alfo the dry parts of drowned Fens,which 

 are overgrown with tall and long Rulhes, Reeds, and 



Sedges. , ._ , 



Laftly they delight in half-drowned Moors, or the 

 hollow vales of Downs, Heaths, or Plains, where there 

 is Ihelter either of Hedges, Hills, Tufts of BuOies or 

 Trees, where they may lurk obfcurely. 



Now the leffer Fowl, which are Web-footed, haunt 

 continually drowned Fens , where they nnay have 

 continually plenty of Water, and may fwim un- 

 difturbed by man or beaft : Their haunt is likewife 

 in the m.ain Streams of Rivers, where the Current 

 is fwifielt and leaft fubjed to freez •, and the broader 

 and deeper fuch Rivers are, the greater delight thefe 

 Fowl take therein , the fFiid-gofe and B^^m^c/e ex- 

 cepted, who abide no Waters above their foundmg i 

 for when they cannot reach the Ouze , they inftant- 

 Iv remove thence, feeking out more (hallow places. 

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