be Iiotj when for themoft part they are found on the South-fide 
of the Bank : that towards Seven or Eight at Nigbtaif it be cool, 
or likely to rain, you may dig a foot deep before you can find 
them. 
They know all the forts of their Young fo well^that you cannot 
deceive them^though you may with fine Sugar^Salt^ or th^Crums 
of very white ftale Bread, fcatter'd in the Mould, where their fiiit 
true Eggs are (as I call them)bcmiftaken your fclf, yet the Ants 
will not,nor touch a bit of what is not their own OfF-fpring. 
13. 1 cannot pafs by theKf^ofy^/^^i in feeding young Pheafants 
and PartridgeSjthey being the principal Food of thefe Birds^ borh 
wiide and tamed for feveral wrecks, as is well known toall that are 
vei fed inbreeding them up. And a chief reafon, why many find 
it fo nice a thing to breed up the faid Birds, iS;, that either they give 
th€m toofparingly of this Food, or let them faft too long, not 
knowing, that as foon 'tis day-light, they will feek it for their 
Break- faft and if c hey want it,will in a few hours be faint and weak, 
and fome grow fo chill for want of that fupply of Nouriflimenc, 
that it is no eafie matter to recover them. 
14. But (to add this by the by) Though thefe Inftdsbefo 
good a Food to tliefe Birds, whileft very young ^ yet when by ill 
ordering of thofe that fliould keep them fweetjand often ftiifttheir 
/water^or by ill Diet, as mufty Corn, they grow fick- thon 
Ants will not always recover them^ though you give them nevier 
fomany: And I have been forced to make ufe of other Infedls tb 
xure them, to wit, of MillefecJes zni Eamigs, cither of which will 
-do goodjbutboth togerher,better5 given in a good quamityjtwo 
or three times, atleaft;>a day^ burthen thofe other things muft 
be obferved too, of keeping their Houfe clean, and giving them 
fweet Corn, and fliifting their water twice a day, keeping them 
Wiihin, till the Dew be from the ground, letting them bask in 
Sand, partly in the Sun, the place a little (haded^ and putting 
them up in a warm houfe before Sun- fet. 
Which particular I thought not amifs to add for thofe that 
delight in breeding up Pheafams and P4rtridges,v[\y.k\{ havingloft 
-many of both forts, till 1 learned that Vertue of thofe Infeds j 
after wliich^ feldom any of them, by me intended to be bred up, 
have died. 
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