- BIRDS... Ga 
from twelve to Siren or 
twenty the fize of a Pigeon’s, upon 
the ground, at the foot of a hazel-tree, or great 
mountain fern, and fits three weeks. , It is faid 
too (but it feems very extraordinary) that feldom 
more than feven or cight chickens, or young 
ones, are hatched. As foon as they are able to 
procure their own food, their parents drive them 
away, always referving a certain diftrict for them 
felves. 
When they are diffurbed they fy into trees, 
and perch upon the low branches near the 
body; there they will wait very patiently for a 
long time ; but the fowlers concealing themiclves, 
and imitating the voice of thefe birds by a pipe, 
often draw them into their nets, or fome other 
{nare. 
Their ficth is efleemed a great delicacy. 
The 



