but 3\^oHawk and Birds of Prey to fwoop into your 



Nets. til* 



Remember to keep the firft half dozen you take aUve 



for Stales, and to that end have a Cage or Linnen-bag 



to put them in: The reft fqueez in the hinder-part ot 



the head, and To kill them. And thus do every day. 



Of taking fmall Birds which ufe Hedges 

 and Bujhes with Lime-twigs. 



THe great Limc-bu(h isbeft for this ufe, which you 

 muft make after this manner : Cut down the 

 main Arm or chief Bough of any bufhy Tree , whofc 

 branches or Twigs are long, thick, fmooth and ftja'ght, 

 without either pricks or knots •, of which the VVillow 

 or Birch-tree are the beft : when you have pickt^ it 

 and trimm'd it from all fuperfluity, making the Twigs 

 neat and clean i take then of the beft Bird-lime , well 

 mixed and wrought together with Goofe-greace or Ca- 

 pon's-greace, which being warmed, lime every Twig 

 therewith within four fingers of the bottom. The body, 

 from whence the branches have their rife,muft be un- 

 touchM with Lime. • . , u 



Be fure you do not dawb you Twigs with too much 

 Lime, for that will give diftafte to the Birds i yet let 

 none want its proportion, or have any part left bare 

 which ought to be toucht : for, as too much will deter 

 them from coming , fo too little will not hold them 

 when they are there. 



Having fo done, place your Bufti on feme Quick-let 

 or dead Hedge neer unto Towns- ends, back-yards, old 

 houfes, or the like •, for thefe are the refort of fmall 

 Birds in the Spring-time : in the Summer and Harveft 

 in Groves, Bulhes, White-thorn-trees , Quick-fet-hed- 



ges, 



