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ao BT Rk D'S, 5 
| - able focks on the larger pools, then the fowlers 
kill great numbers, and this is their method : 
| They get into’ feveral little boats, which 
they place in a line all the breadth of the pool.. 
This little fleet moves forwards, and drives before 
it the flock of Coots, fo as to croud them into 
fome little inlet. 
The Coots, then prefled by fear and neceflity, 
all take wing at once, and fly over the heads of 
the fowlers to get back into the pool. The 
 fowlers fire their guns that inftant, and great 
numbers are killed. Then they row back to 
f where the remainder of the Coots are crouded 
together; and what is very ftrange, neither the 
 poife and the fire of the guns, nor the appear- 
ance of the boats, nor the death of their com- 
_ panions, make them then fly from the pool. 
~ They wait until the night, then they moftly leave 
the place where their flock has fo much fuffered : 
_ afew ftragglers however may fometimes be feen 
the next day. 
_ Thefe indolent birds have many enemies: the 
Buzzards deftroy many of their eggs, and carry 
away many of their young; they are hunted by 
men and dogs, and deftroyed by otters, as well as 
_ bykites and falcons.’ This muft be the reafon 
that they increafe fo little, for the Coot lays 18 
A 3 or 
