COMMON LINNET. 



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Young birds resemble the females, and have the breast, 

 belly, and flanks, streaked longitudinally with brown. 



The vignette below represents the mode of using the clap- 

 net, a particular sort of ground-net in constant use among 

 London bird-catchers. It consists of two equal parts, or 

 sides, each about twelve yards long, by two yards and a half 

 wide, and these two sides are by an ingenious contrivance 

 pulled over together towards each other, so as to cover the 

 oblong space between their points of motion, which are in 

 parallel lines nearly as far apart as the width of both halves of 

 the net. Various call-birds, either fixed by braces, or con- 

 fined in small cages, are placed about the net to decoy the 

 wild birds down that come within sight or hearing. One 

 bird-catcher is represented in the act of pulling the two 

 halves of the net over to enclose and entrap the birds be- 

 tween them ; the figure in the foreground, with his nets 

 packed at his back, exhibits the convenient portability of the 

 materials. 



