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cork, to prevent the legs being broken. The young 

 ones of the first year are the easiest to preserve. 

 They also go to the water-trap without difficulty. 



Heed Warbler. These birds are sometimes caught 

 by placing lime twigs on a place cleared of the turf, 

 and throwing meal-worms there. 



Shrike, Little. "When the particular brambles and 

 branches have been observed, on whicli this bird 

 watches for its prey, it is not difficult to catch it ; for 

 notwithstanding its great quickness, it is not the less 

 imprudent, for it allows itself to be caught in the 

 birdlime in the most stupid manner. 



Siskin. With good traps and nets made for this 

 purpose, several dozen of these birds may be taken 

 at once in the winter. They also collect in numbers, 

 in the spring, on the decoy bush, and they are so fear- 

 less, that in the villages a person, who has his house 

 situated near a stream bordered with alders, need 

 only place a siskin in the window, near a stick covered 

 with birdlime, and he may catch as many as he wishes. 

 I have caught some at my window in a cage strewed 

 with hemp- and poppy-seed, by letting the door fall by 

 means of a string, when the birds had entered, one of 

 the decoy birds in my room serving to attract them. 

 When the place where they drink at noon is dis- 

 covered amongst the alders, numbers may be caught 

 by merely laying across the stream some branches 

 covered with birdlime. 



Skylark. It would take too long a time to describe 

 all the modes of catching larks which are in use. It 

 is enough to say that with day and night nets, known 

 by the name of lark nets, so large a nufiiber of these 

 birds are taken alive in the open country, that it is 

 easy to have a choice of both males and females. 



