flDf f otuiing* 



Of the WOOD-LARK. 



SOme prefer the Wood-larh^ before the Nightingale •, 

 but it is of this bird as all others, forae are more 

 excellent in length and fweetnefs of Song. 



This bird breeds the fooneft of any we have, by rea- 

 bn of his extraordinary mettlefomenefs : and there- 

 fore if they are not taken in the beginning oi February 

 It leaii* they grow fo rank that they will prove good 



'or nothing. 



The places this bird moft delights in are gravelly 

 erounds , and Hills lying towards the Orient, and in 

 Oat-ftubs. Their building is in your Laiers grounds, 

 where the Grafs is rank and ruffet, making their Nefts 

 of Bennet-grafs, or dead Grafs of the field vinder fome 

 large Tuffet, to (helter them from the injury of the wea- 



This Bird hath very excellent pleafant Notes, with 

 ereat variety, infomuch that I have obferved fome have 

 hadalmoft thirty feveral Notes i which if they fing 

 lavifti, is a moft ravilbing melody or harmony , if the 

 Nightingale joyn in confort. 



Thefe Birds are never bred from theNefts as ever 

 I could hear: I have feveral times attemjpted it, but to 

 no purpofe i for notwithftanding my greateft care, 

 they died in a Week, either of the Cramp or Scow- 



The times of the year to take them are Jme.Jaly, 

 Amuii; and then they arc called young Br^wckrj, ha- 

 ving not yet moulted. They are taken likewife at the 

 latter end of -^e^icw^eri but having then moulted, the 



young and old are not diftinguilhable, 



JLiwiTiy, 



