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chanism, “are generally twelve yards and a ‘half 
Jong, and°two ‘yards and‘a half wide ; and no 
‘one on bare inspection’ would imagine that a 
bird (who isso very quick in all its motions) 
could be catched by the nets flapping over each 
other, till he becomes eye-witness of the pallets 
seldom failing. * 
The wild birds fy (as the bird-catchers term 
it) chiefly during the month of October, and 
part of September and November; as the flight 
in March is much less considerable than that ~ 
of Michaelmas. It is to be noted also, that 
the several species of birds of flight do not 
make their appearance precisely at the same 
time, during the months of September, October 
and November. The Pippet,+ for example, 
begins to fly about Michaelmas, and then the 
Woodlark, Linnet, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Green- 
finch, and other birds of flight succeed; all of 
which are not easily to be caught, or in any 
numbers, at any other time, and more parti- 
cularly the Pippet and the Woodlark. 
_* These nets are known in most parts of England by the 
name of day-nets or clap-nets ; but all -we have seen are far in- 
ferior in their mechanism to those used near London. 
+ A small species of Lark, but which is inferior to other birds 
of that Genus in point of song. (See vol. i. p. 484.) 
