‘%  -THE MATURAL HISTORY 
When they are much difturbed,. they fly on 
trees, and if the fowlerhas a dog, they attend fo 
much. to him, that they-may be thot one after 
another, without once attempting to fly away. 
‘They-are very unfufpecting birds, and will fome- _ 
_ times fuffer themfelves to be knocked down with 
a fuck, or caught by a noofe at the end ofa 
pole. In the country 1 where they are found, the 
inhabitants kill a great many at the beginning of 
winter; and the cold weather freezes them, fo 
thet they will keep perfeétly {weet until thefpring ; 
before they are drefled, they are thrown into cold 
“water, which thaws them. 
AP The Pouce fpecies is the intel The 
-Jegs and toes are warmly clothed: with a thick | 
and long coat of foft white feathers, like the fur. 
on the feet of the hare,: y 2sned hee Mond 
‘The quill feathers. are: white, the waiter tail 
feathers black, except at the points, where’ they 
are white. The two middle ‘tail feathers afh- 
coloured in’ fummer, and white in winter, 
Jn the winter they are white, except. a’ black 
Vine in the male between the bill and the eve, and 
the fhafts of the ao firft quill feathers; which | 
continue black, 
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