TO TAKE BIRDS WITH BIRDLIME. 103 



birds fly, pull your packthread S, and those that are tied 

 will take wing, by which means you may take a great 

 many; for those that hover in the air, perceiving the 

 others fly, will imagine they feed there, and coming down, 

 so light upon the lime-twigs ; from which you may take 

 them. 



As soon as the small birds have done with their nests, 

 which will be about the end of July, you may take them 

 -in great numbers, when they go to drink, along rivulets, 

 and about springs, ditches, and pools, in the fields and 

 woods. 



Suppose the place marked with the letter A, in the 

 above plate, should be the middle of a ditch, or pool full 

 of water, where birds come to drink. Make choice of a 

 bank wljere the sun comes but little, as at B ; remove 

 every thing that may obstruct their coming easily at 

 the water ; take several small lime-twigs, a foot long, 

 and smear them over, to within two inches of the thickest 

 end, which must be sharp-pointed, in order to fix them 

 in a row along the bank B, in such a manner that they 



