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gtcd with Egg, and the Herap-feed bruifed : Let them 

 have Sand in the bottom of their Cagei Pearches there- 

 in are to no purpofe. 



As the ?rW-/^r^ is taken with Net and Hobby, fa 

 may the SJqelarkjic taken alfo. They are taken like- 

 wife in dark nights with a Trammel •, this Net is about 

 fix and thirty yards long,and fix yards over,run through 

 with iix ribs of Pack-thread ; which ribs at the ends 

 ire put upon two Poles fixtcen foot long , made taper 

 It each end, and fo is carried between two men half a 

 yard from the ground i every fix fteps touching the 

 ground, to caufe the Birds to fly up, other wife you may- 

 carry the Net over them without difturbing them : 

 hearing them fly againft the Net, clap it down, and they 

 are fafe under it. This is a very murdering Net, taking 

 ill forts of birds that it comes near, as Vartridges^^ails^ 

 Woodcocks, Snipes^ Felfares, and what not, alraoft in e- 

 l^ery dark night. 



The next way of taking them is with a pair of 

 Day-nets and a Glafs, which is incomparable paftime 

 in a Frofty Morning. Thefe Nets are commonly fe- 

 iren Foot deep , and Fifteen long , knit with your 

 French Me(h , and very fine Thread. Thefe Nets 

 :ake all forts of fmall Birds that come within their 

 !^ompafs , as Bunting'lark/ , and Linnets in abun- 

 dance. 



Thefe Larkj are alfo taken by a Low-bell , with a 

 5reac light carried in a Tub both by one man, and the 

 ^Jet by another » this Bell and Light fo amazeth them, 

 hat they lie as dead, and ftir not till the Net overcaft 

 :hem. By this Bell are all forts of Fowls and Birds 

 :aken, zs Partridge 2ind Fheafanty and if the Bell be 

 00 wd, or very deep, P«cj^, Mallard^ Woodceck^y and 

 ?«//>e may be taken. 



The laft way of taking Larh^ is in a great 

 ^now, by taking an hundted or two hundred yards 



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