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where his haunt is, and there they set downe a bush or branch, and they put a 

 limed twigge vnder the saide bush or branch : for so soone as he hath taken a fish, 

 he will flie to the next bush and light on that vnder twigge lymed, and so they take 

 him. Also they say this bird, being dead, if he be hanged vp by the bill with a 

 thre'ed in your house where no winde bloweth, his brest will alway hang against the 

 winde, whereby ye may knowe perfectly in what quarter the winde is at all times, 

 both night and day. Thus much of the bird called the Kings fisher. 



TJlc Connorant. 



The Cormorant is also a great destroyer of fish, h^e vseth the fresh waters, and 

 will diue vnder the water, and will take and eate fish of three and foure yeares 

 growth. How to take or destroy them I know not well, otherwise then to destroy 

 their nests in breeding time, whereas they breede in Hands, and rockes by the sea : 

 some may be destroyed in riuers and pooles, with crossebow, or hand gun, other 

 wayes I haue not knovven or heard of, not with lime lines except it be in the night, 

 and then they will pike them soone cleane againe. 



The DobcJiicke. 



The Dobchicke is likewise a water fowle, and they will be alwayes commonly 

 on riuers and pooles, and they are nigh as great as the Teales, and are of cullour 

 blacke, and they will commonly diue vnder the water to take young fish, as I haue 

 s^ene in riuers and brookes. Howe for to take them, the fisher men some doe vse 

 to lay on the water long lines of small threede knit full of little corkes, a handfuU 

 a sunder on the line, and cut foure square like bigge dice, and so limed and fold on 

 aracle [a rackle], as I shall shewe hereafter : and where they see them haunt, they 



