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0/BAT-FOWLlNG. 



BAt'FOlVLlNG is the taking of all mann.r 

 of Birds, great and fmall,by night, which rooft m 

 Butties, Shrubs, Hawthorn-trees, &c. 



The manner is : you mult be very filent tiU your 

 Lights are blazing, and you may either carry Nets or 

 none: if none, you muft then have long Poles with 

 great buttiy tops hxt to thems and having from a Cr#J 

 or vefTel to carry hre in,lighted your Straw,or other bla- 

 zing combulVible matter, then muft you beat thofe Bu- 

 (lies where you think Birds are at rooft i which done, 

 if there beany in thofe Butties or Trees, you will in- 

 Itantly fee them fly about the Flames : for it is their na- 

 ture, through their amazednefs at the ftrangenefs of 

 the Light, and extream darknefs round about it not 

 to deptrt from it, but they will even (corch their Wings 

 in the fame, fo that thofe who have the buQiy Poles 

 may beat them down as they pleafe, and take them up. 

 Thus you may continue your fport as long as it is very 

 dark, and no longer. 



Of the DAY-NET, and how to take 

 Birds therewith. 



THe VayNet is generally ufed for the taking of 

 Lark^s, Buntings, Merlins, Hobbies , or any Birds 

 which play in the Air, and will ftoop either to Stale, 

 Prey, Gig, Glafs, or the like. , . ,, 



The feaion for thefe Nets is from Augufi to Novem- 

 ber: the time you muft plant thefe Nets muft be be- 



tore 



