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BRITISH BIRDS. 
a feafon in which thirty-one thoufand two hundred 
Ducks, including Teals and Wigeons, were fold in 
London only, from ten of thefe decoys near Wain^ 
fleet, in Lincolnfliire. Formerly, according to WiL 
ioughby, the Ducks, while in moult and unable to 
fly, were driven by men in boats, furnifhed with long 
poles, with which they fplaflied the water between 
long nets, ftretched vertically acrofs the pools, in 
the fliape of two fides of a triangle, into lefler nets 
placed at the point, and in this way, he fays, four 
thoufand were taken at one driving in Deeping^ 
Fen ; and Latham has quoted an inftance of two 
thoufand fix hundred and forty-fix being taken in 
two days, near Spalding in Lincolnfliire ; but this 
manner of catching them while in moult is now 
prohibited. 
