be hot, .when for "the moil- -part they are found on tbe South-fide 
of the Bank:, that: towards Seven or Eight at Night, if it be coo!,, 
or likely to rain, you may dig a . foot deep before you can finde 
them.. 
v They know all the forts of their Young fo well, that you cannot 
deceive them, though you may with fine Sugar, S-alt,or the Crums 
of very white dale Bread, fcatter’d in the Mould, where their firft 
true Eggs are ( as I call them) be midaken your felf , yet the 
Ants will not, nor touch a bit of what is not their own Off-fpring. 
13 . I cannot pafs by the Ufe oi Ants in feeding young Pheafants- 
and Partridges, they being the principal Food of thefe Birds, both 
wilde and tamed, for feveral weeks, as is well known to all that are 
verfed in breeding them up. And a chief reafon, why many finde 
it Co nice a thing to breggtop the faid Birds, is, that either they give 
them too fparingly Food, or let them fall too long,, not 
knowing that as foon ’tis day-light, they will feekit for their 
Break faft, and if they want it^ will in a few hours be faint and weak, 
and feme grow fo chill for want of that fupply of Nourifhment, 
that it is no eafie matter to recover them. 
14. But ( to add this by the by) Though thefe Infedts be fo 
good a Food to thefe Birds, whiled very young-, yet when by ill 
ordering of thofe that (hould keep them fweet,and often Ihift their 
water, or by ill Dyet, as mudy Corn, they grow fick 5 then 
Ants will not always recover them, though you give them never 
£b many: And I have been forced to make ufe of other Infeds to 
cure them, to wit of Millepedes and Earwigs^ either of which will 
do good, but both together, better 5 given in a good quantity ^wo 
or three times-, at lead, a day 5 but then thofe other things mud 
be obferved too, of keeping their Houfe clean, and giving them 
fweet Corn, and fluffing their water twice a day, keeping them 
within, 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! thought notamifs to add for thofe that de- 
light in breeding up P he a f ants and Partridges , my felf having loft 
many of both forts, till I learned that Vertue of thofe Infe&s * af- 
ter which , feldom any of them, by me intend ea to be bred up, 
have died,. 
