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30 Their Fowls } They are plentifully with Fowl in the winter; as with swans, wild goose, ducks, unknown brants, widgeons &c. There are likewise plenty of partridges, Turtle Doves, Blackbirds, pidgeons, wild Turkeys with many birds of curious colours; some all red, some blew, some of various colurs; there are some noted for their singing, as the mockingbird, which is called So, because it imitates ye notes & tunes of all other birds. There is also ye Humming bird, the least & unknown of all others. It sucks flowers & herbs as the bees? do, : It sleeps all the winter. The way to catch this bird is either by a trap, or to put water or sand in a gun, & therewith to shoot them out of a gun, so to drown them with water, or to fell them with ye sand.