sm APPENDIX. VI. 



begins to sing about the latter end of November, 

 and continues its song more or less till June. 



A young Canary bird, linnet, skylark, or ro- 

 bin, (who have never heard any other bird) are 

 said best to learn the note of a nightingale. 



They are caught in a net-trap ; the bottom 

 of which is surrounded with an iron ring ; the 

 net itself is rather larger than a cabbage net. 

 When the trappers hear or see them, they 

 strew some fresh mould under the place, and 

 bait the trap with a meal-worm from the baker's 

 shop. Ten or a dozen nightingales have been 

 " thus caught in a day. 



No. VI. 



EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE 

 SINGING OF BIRDS, BY THE HON. DAINES 

 BARRINGTON; IN A LETTER TO MATHEW 

 MATY, M.D. SEC. R. S. 1773. 



From the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LXIII. 



Dear Sir, 



As the experiments and observations I mean 

 to lay before the Royal Society relate to the sing- 

 ing of birds, which is a subject that hath never 



