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number, fometimes five and twenty : nay, I have heard 

 of thirty in a Covie. 



Now after the Winter-feafon is come, and that thefe 

 Stubble- Helds are plough'dup, or over-foiled with 

 Cattle, then do thefe Partridges refort into the up-land 

 Meadows, and do lodge in the dead Grafs or Fog un- 

 der Hedges, amongft Mole-hills, or under the Roots of 

 Trees : Sometimes they refort to Copfes and Under- 

 woods, efpecially if any Corn-fields are near adjacent, 

 or where grows Broom, Brakes, Fern, or any Covert 

 whatfoever. 



In the Harvcft-time, when every Field is full of men 

 and Cattle, then you Chall find them in the day-time 

 in the Fallow-fields which are next adjoyning to the 

 Corn-fields, where they lie lurking till the Evening, 

 and then they feed among the Shocks or Sheaves of 

 Corn •, and fo they do likewife early in the Morn- 

 ing. 



When you know their Haunts according to the fcitu- 

 aticnof the Country and feafonof the year, your next 

 care niuft be to find them out in their Haunts i which 

 is done feveral ways. Some do it by the Eye onely i 

 and this Art can never be taught, but learned by fre- 

 quent Experience, dilUnguifhing thereby the colour of 

 the Partridge from that of the Earth, and how and in 

 what manner they lodge and couch together : for which 

 purpofe you may come near enough to them, for they 

 are a very lazy Bird, and fo unwilling to take the Wing, 

 that you may even fet your foot upon them before 

 they will ftir, provided you do not iiand and gaze on 

 them, but be in continual motion •, otherwife they will 

 fpring up and be gone. 



There is another way to dil'cover them, and that is 

 by going to their Haunts very early in the Morning, 

 or at the clofe of the Evening, which is called the 

 jHcklng'timcy and there liftening for the calling of the 



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