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able flocks on the larger pools, then’ the fowlers 
kall oreat numbers, and this is their method : 
They get into feveral little boats, which 
- they place ina line all the breadth of the pool. 
This little feet moves forwards, and drives before 
it the flock of Coots, fo as to >» croud themeinto | 
fome little inlet. 
‘The Coots, then preiled by fear and necellity,. 
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 dre killed. .Then they row back to 
where the remainder of the Coots are crouded 
together; and what is very ftrange, neither the 
-noife and the fire of the guns, nor the appear-~ 
ance of the boats, nor the death of their com- 
away many of their young 
_ men and dogs, and deftroyed by otters, as well as_ 
-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 : 
a few ftragglers however may fo: metimes be feen. 
the next day. 
Thefe indolent birds have many enemies: the 
Buzzards deftroy many of their eggs, and. carry 
ae) 
by kites and falcons. This muft be the reafon 
that they increafe fo little, for the Coot lays 18 
; A 3 : Cr 
they are bunted by | 
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