. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . rds in this way, continues only from thelatter end of Odober till February. Particular fpots or decoys, in the fen countries,are let to the fowlers at a rent of from five tothirty pounds per annum; and Pennant inflancesTt 2 332 BRITISH BIRDS. a feafon in which thirty-one thoufand two hundredDucks, including Teals and Wigeons, were fold inLondon only, from ten of thefe decoys near Wain-fleet, in Lincolnfliire. Formerly, according to Wil-loughby, the Ducks, while in moult and unable tofly, were driven by men in boats, fumiflied with lon
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . rds in this way, continues only from thelatter end of Odober till February. Particular fpots or decoys, in the fen countries,are let to the fowlers at a rent of from five tothirty pounds per annum; and Pennant inflancesTt 2 332 BRITISH BIRDS. a feafon in which thirty-one thoufand two hundredDucks, including Teals and Wigeons, were fold inLondon only, from ten of thefe decoys near Wain-fleet, in Lincolnfliire. Formerly, according to Wil-loughby, the Ducks, while in moult and unable tofly, were driven by men in boats, fumiflied with longpoles, with which they fplaflied the water betweenlong nets, fliretched vertically acrofs the pools, inthe ftiape of two fides of a triangle, into lefler netsplaced at the point, and in this way, he fays, fourthoufand were taken at one driving in Deeping-Fen; and Latham has quoted an infl:ance of twothoufand fix hundred and forty-fix being taken intwo days, near Spalding in Lincolnfliire; but thismanner of catching them while in moult is nowprohibited, *. vBRITISH BIRDS. m
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