APPENDIX. 



No. IV. 

 Of the SMALL BIRDS of FLIGHT, 



By the Hon ble . Daines Bar ring ton. 



IN thefuburbs of London (and particularly about 

 Shoreditch) are feveral weavers and other trades- 

 men, who, during the months of Off okr and March,, 

 get their livelihood by an ingenious, and we may 

 fay, a fcientific method of bird-catching, which is 

 totally unknown in other parts of Great Britain. 



The reafon of this trade being confined to f® 

 fmall a compafs, arifes from there being no consi- 

 derable fale for finging birds except in the metro- 

 polis : as the apparatus for this purpofe is alfo 

 heavy, and at the fame time mud be carried on a 

 man's back, it prevents the bird-catchers going to 

 above three or four miles diftance. 



This method of bird-catching rnufl have been 

 long pradtifed, as it is brought to a mod fyftema- 

 ticai perfection, and is attended with a very confi- 

 derable expence. 



The nets are a mod ingenious piece of mecha- 

 nifm, are generally twelve yards and a half long, 



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