Take two or three hundred Birch-twigs, and lime forty or fifty of them together very well: Then finding out the haunt of Snipes, which you shall perceive by their Dung, and in very hard weather where the water lies open they will lie very thick. Then observing the place where they most feed, set two or three hundred of your twigs at a yard distance, and sloping some one way, some another. Retire two or three hundred paces from the place, and you shall find, that there shall not one Snipe in ten miss your twigs, by reason they spread their wings, and fetch a round close to the ground before they alight. When you see any taken, stir not at first, for he will feed with the twigs under his wings, and as others come over the place he will be a cause to entice them. But when you see the coast clear, and but few that be not taken, go and take up your Birds, and fasten one or two, that the other flying over may come to the same place. If there be any other open places there by, put them off those haunts. They will lie where it is open and a Spring very much; for they can feed in no hard place by reason of their Bills. In a Snow you shall have them extraordinary thick upon such a place.
The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
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- The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ...
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- Ray, John, 1627-1705.
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- 1678.
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"The ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq, fellow of the Royal Society in three books : wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described : the descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates : translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work : to which are added, Three considerable discourses, I. of the art of fowling, with a description of several nets in two large copper plates, II. of the ordering of singing birds, III. of falconry / by John Ray ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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* 1.1 How to take Snipes with Water-Bird-lime.
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* 1.1
Out of the Epit. of Hus∣bandry.