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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



(Omnes) and so they do when they are caught in the 

 Nets : and this voyce the cunning Fowler interprets thus, 

 that he hath not, as yet, all of them in his Nets ; nor 

 ever shall have, though he had six hundred Nets." 



THE HOOPOE AND LAPWING. 



Whether the following bird is meant for the Hoopoe, 

 or the Lapwing, I know not. The Latin version has " De 

 Upupis," which clearly means Hoopoes and the trans- 

 lation says, " Of the Whoups or Lapwings " I follow 

 the latter. " Lapwings, when at a set time they come to 

 the Northern Countries from other parts, they foreshew 



the ncarnesse of the Spring coming on. It is a Bird that 

 is full of crying and lamentation, to preserve her Eggs, or 

 young. By importunate crying, she shews that Foxes 

 lye hid in the grasse ; and so she cries out in all places, 

 to drive away dogs and other Beasts. They fight with 

 Swallows, Pies, and Jackdaws. 



"On Hillocks, in Lakes, she lays her Eggs, and hatcheth 



