The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent.

To take young Hawks.

IF you look for Hawks, it must be in very high Woods, their Nests being always in the oftiest Oaks, but the best way to take them, is when they have just left their Nests, yet upon occasion return to it again, is not daring to trust too much to the VVing, their haunts you may observe by their Mutings, then creep close under the Trees, and take notice of their ways coming in, or going from the Nest, among the thickest Trees or Boughs, for they usu∣ally take but one direct way, when they come any thing near the Nest.

VVhen you have done this,

watch the old Hawks going out to provide Provision for them, and in her absence climb up softly, and having a Net or Nets made of Green Thred, to be the less discernable, place it between the Arms of the Trees, they usually pass through, with drawing strings fastened to some branches, so that when they un∣advisedly enter into the Cod, and flutter, their pushing for∣ward may draw the strings and take them. Thus you may take young Crows, Pyes, Rooks on the like, that build in VVoods as soon as flown.