. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. DUCK. 107 In Lorraine, on the pools which border on the Sarre, Ducks arc caught with a net flretch- ed vertically, and like the draw-net ufed for woodcocks *. In many other places, the iowLr fitting in .1 boat, covered with boughs and reeds, approaches flowly tiic Ducks that are difp?rfed on the water, which he colle^lts together by *' teals, the fijclnrils, &c. come to ihp call of the Ducks, or follow *' the betraytis. '⢠This fport is pratHifotl only in moon-li
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. DUCK. 107 In Lorraine, on the pools which border on the Sarre, Ducks arc caught with a net flretch- ed vertically, and like the draw-net ufed for woodcocks *. In many other places, the iowLr fitting in .1 boat, covered with boughs and reeds, approaches flowly tiic Ducks that are difp?rfed on the water, which he colle^lts together by *' teals, the fijclnrils, &c. come to ihp call of the Ducks, or follow *' the betraytis. '⢠This fport is pratHifotl only in moon-light; the mo!l nvour- ** able time is the rifing of that luminary, und an hour hclbrc day-* «⢠i^reuk. It is unprofitable, ex^ept in north'.'rly or ncr:h-?^:Iy '^ , becaufe the Duclcs then journey, or arc in mouon to con- ** gregate. i have feen to the amount of an hundred taken by the «' nets in one pight. A man of weak conftitution, or feniib'c "' to cold, could not fitpport the hardihips infcpar-ibl j from tiiis ** fort of fowling: he mull remiln motionlcls, and of:en drcnchci *⢠the whole night in the middle of the marfhes. " I have often feen thj u'ild Ducks djfccnd to the call of the fc- '« males of their own kind, how elevated foever th^-y m'riln be in â " the air; the betraj'ers ilcw fometiines with them more than a. ** quarter of an hour; each of the fowlers over whom the Hock " palfes, dilpatches others to them ; they dliperle, and each band of" " traitors leads off a detachment; that of the fowlers v/hich have «* wild females is condantly the largeil:. '⢠In general ducking is a feducing but laborious fi^ort: a per- â¢* fon niull brave the rigour of the wcath;r, which, at that feafon, " is often fcvere, his feet foakcd in the water, and his chilkd " with the frod:: he muft patiently wait at night in the hut, OT *' walk out before ilay on the brooks and the rivulet.'-. I remember
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