AN 



ADDITION 



To the F i r s t Book of the 



ORNITHOLOGY 



O F 

 F^J^CCIS IFlLLUgHBTEtq; 



BEING 



An Epitome of the A r t of F O W" L I NG 3 



Colleded out of Markham, Olina, and others. 



N delivering the Art of Fowling, or taking of Birds, there are 

 two methods that might be obferved. 



The firft proceeding according to the Engines and devices 

 that are made life of for taking them. 



The fecond according to the feveral forts of Birds to be 

 taken. 



In the firft method might be firft an enumeration made of 

 the feveral Engines and Inftruments, as Nets, Springes, and 

 Snares, Traps and Pit-falls, Guns and Crofs-bows, Bird- 

 lime, Baits, and Animals, viz. Hawks, and Dogs. Then, going particularly over 

 each Inftrument or Engine, might be (hewed, i. The feveral forts and fafhions of each. 

 2. The various ways of ufing each fort. 3. What kind of birds are to be taken each 

 way. 



, But I fhall chufe rather to ufe the fecond method, following therein Markkas in 

 his Treatife on this Subject, intituled Hungers prevention, or the Art of Fowling, to 

 whom I muft profefs my felf beholden for the greater part of this Difcourfe,. which 

 I fhall divide into two Sedions^ in the firft treating concerning the taking of Water- 

 fowl, in the fecond concerning the taking of Land-fowl: To which laft I (hall annex 

 three Chapters: The firft, concerning the making of Birdlime 5 The fecond, con- 

 cerning the election and training up of a Setting-Dog 5 The third, containing an 

 Abridgment of fome Statutes relating to the prefervation of Fowl. 



SECTION 1; 



Of the taking of IVater-Foypl. 



Chap. I. 



Horn to take Water-Fowl with Nets. 



§. I. 



How to take Cloven-footed Water-Fowl with Nets. 



TAke your Net of the ftrongeft and beft-twined Pack-thread, with large 

 malhes, at leaft two Inches from knot to knot : For the bigger the maih, fo 

 the birds cannot creep through, the better. The Net muft not be above two 

 fathoms deep, and fix long at the moft : A Net of that fize being as great as a man is 



Well 



