74- A Natural 'Eijl or y of 



elfe (i'iffolvT it, ahd itioiften' his Meat, which 

 is a ^ireferiC flemedy to any Thing that is 

 amifs. 



tlb^ io tnU'^mn^^w^ cind old Wigticm- 

 gales, and'' to Order them njohen taken. • 



Til E former are to be catch'd in JutyyOr 

 Beginning of i^^7^ir//?, the latter at the 

 End>of March., or Beginning of April :^ thofe 

 taken in MarcJjy or beforethe i2thof ^^r//, are 

 counted the beft Birds : What are catch' d af- 

 ter the i 2th of that Month, when the Cocks 

 are mafcHed with the Kens, by Reafon of 

 their .Ranknefs, feldom come to any Things 

 it being very difficult to prefer ve them. 



When .you have found the Birds Haunts, 

 which IS lifually in a Wood, Coppice, ox 

 Quick-let Hedge, you may take them by the 

 Trap-Cage, made on Purpofe for catching 

 of Nightingales^ baited with a Meal-worm : 

 yiace'ypur Trap as near where the Bird fings 

 •as you can ; if it is in the Middle of the 

 Hedge, or a Place where he ufed to feed, be- 

 fore you fix the Trap, turn up the Earth a- 

 bout twice the Bignels of the Trap, for where 

 the Ground is new turned up, there they look 

 for Food, and efpying the Worm they come 

 prefently to it ; if they cDme not foon, then 

 turn up a frelh Spot of Earth, as big again 



as 



