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Ptarmigan found on summits of high hills in Scotland, tame weight 19 oz

Partridge weighs 15 oz female 13

Quails migrate in Oct into the hundreds of Essex, in severe snow shelter themselves
among weeds lay 6 or 7 eggs

Cock a wood cocque de Bruyeres, Capricalze high scot north inverness rare feeds on the tops of pines
birch & junipers berries of juniper pines infect the flesh from 8 to 16 eggs according to age

Woodgrous native of Scandinavia Germany France Alps very rare in Scotland weight sometimes 14 pounds
females much less

Heath cock black game grous Coq de bruyeres a queue fourchue woods mountains feed on bilberries
& other mountain fruits in winter tops of heath perch like the pheasant feed on
corn 6 or 7 eggs quarelsome 4 lb near female 2 lb hatches late in summer

Pigeons from one pair in 4 years, 14,760

Godwit 12 1/2 oz taken in the fens with ruffs & reeves when fattened sell from
2/6 to 5/ appear in September walk on open sands & feed on insects francolino
of the Italians

Snipes lay 4 4oz

Lapwing lays 4 eggs sold 3 shillings a dozen weigh 8 oz

Ruffs when taken 7 oz/2 rees 4 appear in spring disappear Michaelmas 4 eggs
1 week in May set about a month fattened with bread & milk hempseed sugar all
for 2/ or 2/6

Knotts taken with ruffs weigh 4/2 oz

Coot 24 to 28 oz sold at Southampton scalded like pigs lay five or 6 eggs

Grebe common on the lake of Geneva sold for their skins for 14/ peat common
in Shropshire & Cheshire sells for same price 4 eggs fish weighs 2/2 pound

Wild swan in Scotland are 13 to 16 lb

Swan 7 or 8 eggs water plants insects shells cygnets fattened at Norwich sold at
Christmas 1 guinea each salt water until near Abbotsbury Dorset

Hares pinks parsley birch subject to fleas weighs from 8 to 12 lb

Alpine hare summits of mountains some playful fond of honey &
carraway comfits weighs 6/2 lb in summer grey mixed with black &
tawney winter snow white

rabbits breed 7 times a year 8 at each brood, in four years 1,274,840 natives of Man
incapable of bearing cold, fur used in hat manufacture in beds bolsters
southold in Cambridgeshire best rabbits for the table soil sandy full of
& grass

Woodcocks breed in Case wood near Tunbridge almost annually feed on worms &
insects weight 12 oz

Fen goose Grey lag heaviest 10 lb rendes the whole year in fens 8 or nine young superior
to the domestic goose when young original of domestic goose

Swan down, eider down duck west of Scotland Best method of curing feathers lay
them in a room exposed to the air when dry bag & beat them with
pole

Feathers of the auk tribe smell of oil

Eider down in breeding time, contents of a nest weigh 4/3 oz 3 to 5 eggs weigh 3/2 pound

Mallard 2/2 lb 10 to 16 eggs Lincolnshire 10d a couple at Boston will lay 3 times

Pochard or dun bird 1 lb 12 oz delicate eating much sought in London

Beccaficos several small birds 3d or 4d a dozen

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