_4, THE NATURAL History | 
this pipe, until they get under the net; then they 
are taken. The decoy-ducks immediately dive 
under water, and go back again into the pool, 
In China, they throw upon the water a num- 
ber of gourds; the wild Ducks being ufed to fee 
them, are not afraid, but fwim near them. The 
Chinefe, in order to take the Ducks, {coop a 
the infide of other gourds, and make a few holes 
to fee and breathe through ; they then put them © 
over their heads and faces, and go into the water. 
Nothing appears above the water but the gourds : 
‘as the Ducks do not at all regard them, the man 
eafily gets amongft the flock, and pulls them un- 
_ der water, As the legs, one after ear until he 
be fatisfied. 
~The wild Ducks are very artful a and do 
not always make their nefts clofe to the water, 
‘but frequently at a good diftance from it; the : 
old Ducks will then carry. their young between 
their beaks or their legs. Sometimes ducks will 
lay their eggs in a high tree, ina Mag gpie’s ora 
Crow’s neft that has been deferted. And there 
has been an inftance of a Duck fitting upon nine 
eggs in an oak- tree twenty- -five feet from the | 
ground: the eggs were laid upon fmall twigs, | 
‘Pace crolsways, : 
