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morant^ See. but none like the Hern for Ponds and 

 fmall Rivers. 



0OW to take PHEASANTS y^i/frj/ 



ways. 



THe taking of Theafants is to be perfornned three 

 fcveral ways, by Nets> by Lime-bufh, or elfe by 

 other particular Engines, which (hall be difcours'd of 

 hereafter. 



The taking of Theafants with Nets, is done either 

 generally, or particularly : generally, when the whole 

 jflye of Pheafants is taken, that is the old Cock and old 

 Hen with all their Powts, as they run together in the 

 obfcure Woods i or particularly, when you take none 

 but the old Pheafants, or the young, being of an age fit 

 to 9oupIe or pair. 



For the greater facility, of taking Pheafants, you muft 

 firft underlhnd their Haunts, which are never in open 

 Fields, but in thick young Copfes well grown, and not 

 in old high Woods. 



Having thus found out their Coverts, which muft be 

 folitary and untraced by Men or Cattel , the next 

 thing will be how to find out the Eye or Brood of 

 Pheafants. 



The firft way, is by going into thefe young Copfes » 

 and carefully viewing the fame, fearching every where > 

 and by that means at laft finding where they run to- 

 gether, as Chickens after a Hen. Or, fecondly, you 

 muft rife early in a Morning, or come late in the Eve- 

 ning ) and obferve how and when the old Cock and 

 Hen call their young ones to them, and how the young 

 ones anfwer back unto thcin again j ^nd fo fxom that 



found 



