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 drop, place your Call Bird by the StaiT* 

 next to the Line ; lie upon as high Ground 

 as you can, for Wood-Larks By very high 

 that Time of the Year. 



How to take them in January. 



THEY commonly lye near a Wood- 

 Side in Padure-Ground, where the 

 Sua rifes ; you muft take your C lap-Nets, 

 and lay them as you do at Michaelmas ; 

 you mull have a good Call-Bird and a 

 Br?xe-Bird which ftands betwixt your Nets: 

 When you perceive the Bird lov/er which is 

 a.fmging up, then fliow your Brace-Bird, 

 which when he fees he'll prefently drop to 

 it: Thofe Birds that are taken at this Time 

 of the Year, are very nigh as good as any, 

 and fmg in three ^pays Tmie alter they are 

 taken,- and put in a Cage ; bruife them 

 Hemp-Seed, or grind it very fine^ and mix ' 

 it with Bread ; put in about half as much 

 Hemp Seed as Bread at the firft, then put 

 fome red Gravel in the Bottom of the 

 Cage, and when you have mix'd your Bread 

 and Hemp-Seed very well, throw fomeiof 

 it upon the Gravel, for they will fooner 

 choofe when they are firfi: taken, to feed in 

 the Bottom of the Cage than in the Trough; 

 I com.monly throw them fome Victuals for 

 two or three Days, and likewlfe fome Vic- 

 tuals in the Trough ^ when you perceive 



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