Note 199 — PART I. INTRODUCTION. (continued 4)

The fen-fowlers, with their long guns, make terrible havock among them, killing sometimes between 20 and 30 at one shot; and of Coots twice that number; which however, is nothing like the number of Starlings which they have sometimes slaughtered:—a person of veracity, who has lived long in the fens, assures this writer, that he knew, an instance, near Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, of 36 dozens of Starlings being killed at a single shot, by one Thomas Hall.