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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn ...,; 1678.
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Subject terms: Birds -- Early works to 1800.; Fowling -- Early works to 1800.; Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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How to catch Woodcocks in Snares.

This Bird being wont to walk streight forwards in any furrows or tracks, the Fow∣lers make little pads or walks for them in the places where they haunt, of a Palm broad, streight and equal, and in them set many Snares made of horse-hair such as are designed Figure 2. This bird being sufficiently simple, once got into one of these pads runs streight on from end to end without any heed-taking, and so is caught by the neck in some of these snares.

We in England are wont to make great Glades through thick Woods, and hang Nets across them: And so the Woodcocks shooting through these Glades, as their na∣ture is, strike against the Nets, and are entangled in them.