OF BIRDS. 13 
’ They are often taken by means of dogs, for 
though they run and fly fafter for fome time, they 
foon become tired, perch upon the high treesy - 
and fuffer themfelves to be killed -with a gun. 
The Indians make an elegant. clothing of their 
feathers ; they work the webs like matting, in 
threads made from hemp, or the inner bark of 
_ the mulberry-tree.—Thefe drefles ‘ee very 
glofly. 
We make fans and umbrellas with the tail. 
The Turkey in a domeftic or tame ftate, lays 
from twelve to fifteen eggs, and fits‘a month: 
if the ezgs be addle, fhe will fit fo long as almoft 
4 to deftroy herfelf. Sometimes, after bringing up one 
? brood, fhe will lay again, but the fecond hatch 
— feldom fucceeds in England : the cold and wet 
weather begins before the young are ftrong, and 
kills them. 
_ Hen Turkeys may be made to fit in almoft any 
. fituation, and if they have built a neft in a place ~ 
expofed to Foxes and Weefels, it will be proper 
to take the eggs away as they are laid; by this 
_ means they will fometimes lay a greater number. — 
It is eafily known when they have done laying, 
by their continuing on the neft; if then a 
new neft be made, the eggs placed in it, and the. 
female confined there a few days, fhe will fit as 
conftantly 


