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with dusky-brown. A female is said however to have been 

 taken bearing a fine red breast. 



The young much resemble the female, but have less of 

 ochreous-brown and none of the rufous tinge on the breast, 

 belly and flanks. 



The vignette represents the mode of working clap-nets, a 

 very effectual engine in constant use among birdcatchers. 

 It consists of two equal flaps of net, each about twelve yards 

 long by two yards and a half wide, which by a simple con- 

 trivance can be simultaneously pulled over towards each 

 other, so as to cover the space between their points of 

 motion, which are in parallel lines nearly as far apart as the 

 width of both flaps. Call-birds, either caged or tethered by a 

 brace, are set about the nets to decoy their wild brethren 

 that come within sight or hearing. One birdcatcher is 

 represented in the act of pulling the two flaps over to 

 enclose the birds between them : the man in the foreground, 

 with his nets packed at his back, exhibits their convenient 

 portability ; while the boy with the bird-call already in his 

 mouth shews another needful accessory to success. 



