The Kinges fisher.
THere is a bird which is a great destroyer of all young fry and small fish, and he is called the Kinges fisher: he is about the bignesse of a Larke, and doth commonly bréede in bankes, sides of riues and brookes, in the spring of the yeare: his feathers are gréene and blewe, and he will al∣wayes haunt about the sides of riuers and brookes, where∣as small fish is, and as soone as he hath caught a fish, he will straight way 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the next bough, and there will sit on a twigge and eate the fish, and so fetch an other. Thus he li∣ueth by the deuouring of all sortes of small frie, such as he may take and carrie away. For to take this birde, they vse to marke where his haunt is, and there they set downe a bush or branch, and they put a limed twigge vnder the saide bush or branch: for so soone as he hath taken a fish, he will flie to the next bush and light on that vnder twigge ly∣med, and so they take him. Also they say this bird, being dead, if he be hanged vp by the bill with a thréed in your house where no winde bloweth, his brest will alway hang against the winde, whereby ye may knowe perfectly in what qnarter the winde is at all times, both night and day. Thus much of the bird called the Kings fisher.