COMMON LINNET. Doo 
The vignette below represents the mode of working the 
clap-net, a particular sort of ground-net in constant use 
among London bird-catchers. It consists of two equal 
parts, or sides, each about twelve yards long, by two yards 
and a half wide, and these two sides are by an ingenious con- 
trivance pulled over together towards each other, so as to 
cover the oblong space between their points of motion, 
which are in parallel lines nearly as far apart as the width 
of both halves of the net. Various call-birds, either fixed 
by braces, or confined in small cages, are placed about the 
net to decoy the wild birds down that come within sight or 
hearing. One bird-catcher is represented in the act of pull- 
ing the two halves of the net over to enclose and entrap 
the birds between them; the figure in the foreground, with 
his nets packed at his back, exhibits the convenient porta- 
bility of the materials. 
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