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Many other devices there are to take feveral forts of birds with Lime-rods, &c. 

 which I think needlefs to fet down s, it being^iot difficult for an ingenious Fowler to 

 invent as good or better, when he (hall have opportunity of taking thole kinds of 



Birds. 



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Chap. IV. 

 '— Of taking 'Birds with Baits. 



T His way is not for taking birds to eat, but for deftroying nokbm and ravenous 

 Fowl, as Crows, Ravens, Kites, Buzzards*^. 

 For the effe&ing whereof, i. Obferve their haunts. 2. Remember the 

 hours or times of day^ when they are moft iharp-fet and greedy, as earlv in the 

 Morning, fo foon as they unpearch themfelves 3 and again at Even a little before Sun- 

 fet, efpecially at that time of the year when they have young ones} for then they 

 will withgreedinefs feize any bait, as fall as you call: it out. 3 . Take a pretty quan- 

 tity of Nix Vomica, and difTolve it, in V&ne Vinegar, or Wine-Lees, [thofe offweet 

 Wine are the beft.] Then take the garbage of any Fowl, and all-befmear them over 

 with your Solution of Nux Vomica, and caft them forth where fuch noifom birds 

 haunt: and watching tne birds in a convenient place, you (hall fee that after fwal- 

 lowing a bit or two, any fuch Fowl will prefently grow dizzy, reeling and tumbling 

 up and down, till at laft it fall into a dead fwoon. 



Others take pretty big gobbets, of raw lean flelh, as Beef, Mutton, &c. and ma- 

 king therein fecret little holes, put in them fmall pieces of Nux Vomica, ana-clofe them 

 up again. 



You may alfo inftead of either make ufe of Carrion, and either fmear it with your 

 Confeclion, or ftop into the flelhy part of it (mall pieces of Nux Vomica. 



It is beft to let thefe baits He loofe, and not faften them to the ground, as fome 

 pra&ife. 



To take granivorous birds of the greater kind, as Doves, Rooks, &c boil good 

 ftore of Nux Vomica together with Wheat, Barley, Peafe, or any other Pulfe very 

 well in ordinary running water, till the Grain be ready to burft, then take it 

 from the fire, and cover it till it be throughly cold. The Grain thus boiled and 

 fteept fcatter thick where thefe Fowl frequent, and it will have the like effeel: upon 

 them, as the Garbage or Carrion had upon the carnivorous. 



For (mall birds boil your Nux Vomica with fuch feeds as they moft delight in , 

 •viz,. Hemp-feed, Rape-feed, Lin-fced, and above all Muftard-ieed 3 and they will be 

 in like manner entoxicated. I * 



Some inftead of Nux Vomica take only the Lees of Wine ( which the (harjjer they 

 are, the better ) and in them .boil^and-fteep, or only peep ( which is as avaneable if 

 continued a fufficient while) tlfcir Grain or Seeds, and fcatter them as above di- 

 rected. , ^ I » • — - 



Others take the juyce of Hemlock, and deep ink their Grain or Seeds, mixing 

 therewith a pretty fprinkling of Henbane and Poppy feeds, letting all ftand in fteep 

 two or three days at leaft, and then drain it, and fcatter it, &c. which will have the 

 like effeel: with the NuxJVomica. 



To recover any Fowl of the(e baits, take a little quantity of Sallet-oyl ( according 

 to the ftrengthand bignefs of the Fowl ) and drop it down its throat 5 then chafe the 

 head well with Vinegar, and the Fowl will prefently recover again,and be as healthful 

 and able as everit was. 



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