37^ O^^lTHOLOgr/ Book' III. 



hedge of Reeds ( 1 m ) to be drawn. The Coy-Bucks ate to be fed at the mouth or 

 entrance of the Pipes, and to be accuftomed at a token given them by a whittle to ha* 

 ften to the Fowler. The Fowler firfl: walks about the Poof, and obferves into what 

 Pipe the Birds gathered together in the Pool may moft conveniently be enticed and 

 • driven, and then calling Hemp-feed, orfome fuch like thing at the entrance thereof 

 calls his Coy-ducks together by a whittle. The wild fowl accompany them, and when 

 the Fowler perceives them nowentred into the Pipe, he fhews himfelf behind them 

 through the interfaces of the hedges n,n,n, which being frightned, and not daring 

 to return back upon the man, fwim on further into the Pipe, then by other interftices 

 the Fowler (hews himfelf again behind them, till at laft he hath thus driven them into 

 the Cylindrical Nets, If any Birds rife and endeavour to fly away, being beaten 

 back by the Nets fpread over the Pipe they fall down again into the Channel. The 

 whole artconfifts in this, that the Birds within the Pipes may fee the Fowler thofe 

 in the Pool not feeing him. So thofe only feeing him, thefe notwithstanding often 

 enter the Pipes, and fo fometimes befides thofe the Fowler drives before him there are 

 others taken the fecond or third time. The Coy-clucks go not into the Cylindrical 

 Nets, but ftay without and entice others. Some train up a Whelp for this fort of 

 fowling, teaching him to compafsthe hedges, and (hew himfelf behind the Birds to 

 which purpofe there are holes made in the hedges for him to pafs freely. The Whelp 

 in compafTing the hedges ought always to keep his tail directed toward the Pool, his 

 Head toward the Pipe, and fo he terrifies the Birds before him, and drives then/ for- 

 ward ; Thofe behind him he allures and tolls forward, they following him to gaze at 

 him as a new and ftrange object. When the wind blows fideways the Birds are more 

 ^ Lies in their eafily driven whither the Fowler pleales, than when its blows *dirc&ly contrary to 

 their tack" thera 5 or witn them - For whtn k is direftly contrary the Birds are very hardly dri- 

 ven to bear up againft it: When it blows juft behind them, it brings the fent of the 

 Manor the Whelp into their Nofthrils. Wherefore ( as we faid) the Channels are 

 drawn either on the North or South end of the Pool, becaufe the Weft- wind with us 

 as it is the moft boifterous, fo is it by far the moft frequent of all. 



Of the Coy ^ ducks fome fly forth and bring home with them wild ones to the Pool, 

 others have the outmoft joynt or pinion of their Wings cut off, fo that they cannot' 

 , fly, but abide always in the Pool. The Fowlers houfe istobe covered with trees and 

 reeds, and hid as much as poffible. 



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* Anas media The Gadwati or Gray, perchance the * Mitelenten of Gefner : Anas platyrhynchos roftro 

 magnitude. n jg ro &- pi ano# Aid rov . p.2 3 3 . forte Anas ftreperaGefheri, Aldrov. p.2 3 4. 



IN bignefs it equals or exceeds the Pochard, and comes very near the Duck. Its 

 length from Bill to Tail Was nineteen inches : Its breadth thirty three: Its Bill from 

 the tip to the corners of the mouth two inches long. It is long-bodied : Its whole 

 Rump black : Its Back brown, the edges of the feathers being of a whitifh red : Its 

 Chin and Cheeks white, fpeckled with fmall brown fpecks. Its head from blue in- 

 clines to black, the edges of the feathers being of an afti-colour in the Throat, and 

 of a whitiih red near the Breaft. The lower part of the Neck and upper part of 

 the Breaft and Shoulders are covered with a moft beautiful Plumage particoloured of 

 black and white. The extreme edges and as it were fringes of the feathers are red- 

 ditb, then a black line of a femicircular figure encompafles the tip of the feather, 

 running parallel to its edges $ within this is included another femicircular white line 

 parallel to it, and in the white again a black. The Breaft is white : The Belly darker, 

 with tranfverfe black fpots. Under the Tail the feathers are crofted with brown. 

 The lefler covert-feathers under the Wings and the interiour baftard Wing are purely 

 white. The fides are curioufly variegated with alternate black and white lines. I he 

 Tail is ihort, fcarce appearing beyond the feathers incumbent on it, round-pointed, 

 made up of fixteen feathers with (harp tips, of a white colour, efpecially on the un- 

 der fide, for the two middle ones above are of a dark afti-colour : In the reft, efpe- 

 cially the outmoft,there isfomethingof red mingled with the white : The edges of all 

 are whitiih. 



Each Wing hath twenty fix quils, of which the firftten are brown 5 the three next 

 tipt with white : The four following have their outer Webs black, their tips alfo 

 being whitiih : In the three fucceeding the inner Web of the feather is wholly white : 



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