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they fufFer themfelvcs to be took mp With the 

 Hand. Thefe Birds foon grow tail^e. 



The next Seafon is {ox Michaelmas Birds, 

 which are taken with Clap-nets in great 

 Nu'mbers in September^ and are counted bet- 

 ter Birds than what are cacched at any other 

 Time of the Year, becaufe keeping them all 

 the Winter, makes them more tame than 

 Birds catcti'd in January or February^ arid will 

 fing longer, eight or nine Months in the Year. 

 M'^ood'hrks at this Time commonly fly -very 

 high, therefore the higheft Ground is afoaily 

 chofe to lay the Ne?ts upon, likevvife mi, 

 Cart- way, or where a Spot of Earth is frefli 

 turned up; or fomctimes you may turn it up 

 on Purpofe. 



A third Seafon for tdkin^Wood-farks is in 

 January "^ what are caught at that Time^ are 

 very ftout good Birds, and will fing in a few 

 Days after they are taken, both il;omer and 

 louder than one taken in Seftember^ but not 

 fing b many Months : Thefe are catch 'd with 

 the Clap-net like wife, as they are at Mk'haeU 

 mas ; and are found at that Time of the Year, 

 lying near a Wood-fide in Pafture Groundj 

 where the Sun rifes. 



Wood'hrhs are fometimes taken when they 

 are matched with their Hen, which I think is 

 wrong ; they fhould by no Means be difturb^ 

 ed in breeding 7'ime, or when they are pre- 

 paring for it: TheEnd of y^/^^/i?;j ought to be 



