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Cv-^mmonly find them by the Side cf a 

 Chalk and Sandy Hill ; like wife in a Wood 

 or a Coppice, or Quick-fet Hedge. When 

 you have taken your Bird, tie his Wings 

 together with a Bit of Thread, for they are 

 of a wild Nature when they are firft catch- 

 ed, but come prefently tame and pleafant 

 to their Keeper. 



When you have tyed their Wings at the 

 End as foon as taken, then pluck or cut 

 their Feathers from their Vent, otherwife 

 they will be fubjed to clog and bake up 

 their Vent, which is prefent Death. 



When you go to catch them, take fome 

 of your Sheep's Heart and Hgg with you, 

 in tv/oor three Hours after taken you muft, 

 cram them, open their Bills with a Quill 

 or a Stick made for that Purpofe, let your 

 Meat be very moifl, and take the Bignefs 

 of a great Pea, and they will prefently 

 fwallow ; and when you find they fwallow 

 it, you may put three or four according as 

 they take them ; you muft give them a- 

 bout the fame Quantity once in an Hour 

 and a half, or two Hours, at fartheft ; when 

 you get them Home, put them in a Cage, 

 a Nightingale Back-Cage, or if an open 

 Cage, throw a Cloth over one Side of the . 

 Ca^e ; and when you have cram'd them for^ 

 a Day and a half, 'put a fmall Qiiantiry of 

 Meat iu their Pan, and ftick it full of 



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