48 BIRD-CATCHING. 



Wryneck. In general it is caught by putting lime 

 twigs round the nest ; but if the weather be stormy, 

 as in spring, when it is busy searching the bushes for 

 insects, it may even be taken by the hand. The one I 

 now have was brought to me by a little boy who had 

 taken it in this manner. 



Yellowliammer. The yellowhammer is easily taken 

 in winter, near our dwellings, either in a net, with a 

 stalk of oats as a bait, or under a basket or sieve, 

 which may be thrown down, by drawing away the 

 small stick that supports it by means of a string. 

 They will also enter the area or barn-floor trap, if a 

 perching bird is fastened there, by a string attached 

 to the leather band round its body ; in spring they may 

 be caught like other birds, by means of a bird-call, 



