s of a Natural _Pheasant-Call_, and how usefully to
apply them. In the Morning just before, or at _Sun-rising_, call them to
feed, and so at _Sun-setting_: In the _Forenoon_, and _Afternoon_, your
Note must be to Cluck them together to _Brood_, or to chide them for
straggling, or to notify some danger at hand.

Thus skilled in their _Notes_, and by the Darkness, Solitaryness, and
strong undergrowth of the place assured of their _Haunts_, closely lodge
your self, and softly at first call; lest being near you, a loud _Note_
affright them; and no Reply made, raise your _Note_ gradually, to the
highest; and if there be a _Pheasant_ in hearing, he will answer you,
in as loud a _Note_. Be sure it be Tunable. As soon as you are answered,
creep nearer to it; if far off, and a single _Fowl_, as you call, and
approach, so will the _Pheasant_. Having gotten sight of her, on the
_Ground_, or _Perch_, cease calling, and with all silence possible,
spread your _Net_ conveniently, between the _Pheasant_, and you, one end
of the _Net_ fastned to the _Ground_, and the other end, hold by a long
Line in your hand, by which you may pull it together, if strained; then
call again, and as you see the _Pheasant_ come under your _Net_, rise
and shew your self, and affrighting her, she will mount, and so is
taken. Thus if on the contrary you have divers _Answers_, from several
_Corners_ of the _Coppice_, and you keep your place and not stir, they
will come to your Call, and then having a pair of _Nets_, spread one on
each side, and do as before. Your _Nets_ must be made of _Green_ or
_Black_ double-twin'd _Thread_, the _Mesh_ about an inch square, between
_Knot_, and _Knot_, the whole _Net_ about three _Fathom_ long, and Seven
_Foot_ broad, verged with strong small Cord on each side and ends, to
lye hollow and compass-wise.

The next way of taking _Pheasant-Powts_, is by _Driving_ thus. Having
found the _Haunt_ of an _Eye of Pheasants_, known by the _Barrenness_ of
the place, _Mutings_ and loose Feathers, then in the little Pads and
Wayes, like Sheep-tracks, they have made, place your Nets (taking the
wind with you) a-cross these Paths, hollow, loose and circularly, the
nether part fixt to the ground, and the upper side hollow, _&c._ as
aforesaid: Then to their _Haunt_, and there _call_ them together,
if scattered; then with a _Driver_, an Instrument like that of
_Cloath-dressers_, rake gently the Bushes and Boughs about you, the
_Powts_ will ru