APPENDIX. 649 



No. IV. 

 Of the SMALL BIRDS of FLIGHT, 



By the Hon ble . Da.in.es Barrington, 



IN the fuburbs of London (and particularly about 

 Shoreditch) are feveral weavers and other trades- 

 men, who, during the months of Ofiober and March, 

 get their livelihood by an ingenious, and we may 

 fay, a fcientific method of bird-catching, which is 

 totally unknown in other parts of Great Britain, 



The reafon of this trade being confined to fo 

 frnall a compafs, arifes from there being no confi- 

 derable fale for finging birds except in the metro- 

 polis : as the apparatus for this purpofe is alfo 

 heavy, and at the fame time mud be carried on z 

 man's back, it prevents the bird-catchers going to 

 above three or four miles didance. 



This method of bird-catching mud have been 

 long praclifed, as it is brought to a mod fyftema- 

 tical perfection, and is attended with a very consi- 

 derable expence. 



The nets are a mod ingenious piece of mecha- 

 nifm, are generally twelve yards and a half long, 



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