meee. Ss EY. LAY RK: 
Xt continues its harmony feveral months, begin- 
ning early in the fpring, on pairing. In the win- 
ter they affemble in vaft flocks, grow very fat, 
and are taken in great numbers for our tables. 
They build their neft on the ground, beneath fome 
clod; forming it of hay, dry fibres, &c, and lay 
four or five eggs. 
The place thefe birds are taken in the sreateft 
quantity, is the neighbourhood of Dunffadle: the 
feafon begins about the fourteenth of September, and 
ends the twenty-fifth of February; and during 
that fpace, about 4000 dozen are caught, which 
fupply the markets of the metropolis. Thofe caught 
in the day are taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards 
length, and two and a half in breadth; and are 
enticed within their reach by means of bits of look- 
ing-glafs, fixed in a piece of wood, and placed in 
the middle of the nets, which are put in a quick 
whirling motion, by a ftring the larker com- 
mands; he alfo makes ufe of a decoy lark. Thefe 
nets are ufed only till the fourteenth of November, 
for the larks will not dare, or frolick in the air 
except in fine funny weather; and of courfe can- 
not be inviegied into the {nare. When the wea- 
ther grows gloomy, the larker changes his engine, 
and makes ufe of a trammel net twenty-feven or 
-twenty-eight feet long, and five broad; which is 
put on two poles eighteen feet long, and carried 
by men under each arm, who pafs over the fields 
and quarter the ground as a fetting dog; when 
they 
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