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and two yards and a half wide-, and no one on bare 

 infpection would imagine that a bird (who is fo 

 fo very quick in all its motions) could be catch- 

 ed by the nets flapping over each other, till he 

 becomes eye witnefs of the pullers feldom failing *. 



The wild birds fly (as the bird-catchers term it) 

 chiefly during the month of Oclober, and part of 

 September and November -, as the flight in March is 

 much lefs confiderable than that of Michaelmafs. 

 It is to be noted alfo, that the feveral fpecies of 

 birds of flight do not make their appearance pre- 

 cifely at the fame time, during the months of 

 September ', Oftober and November. The Pippet f, 

 for example, begins to fly about Michaelmafs^ and 

 then the Woodlark, Linnet, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, 

 Greenfinch, and other birds of flight fucceed j 

 all of which are not eafily to be caught, or in any 

 numbers, at any other time, and more particularly 

 the Pippet and the Woodlark. 



Theie birds, during the Michaelmafs and March 

 flights, are chiefly on the wing from day break 

 to noon, though there is afterwards a fmall flight 

 from two till night ± but this however is fo incon* 



* Thefe nets are known in moft parts of England by the 

 name of day-nets or clap-nets ; but all we have feen are far 

 inferior in their mechanifm to thofe ufed near London. 



■f A fmall fpecies of Lark, but which is inferior to other 

 birds of that Genus in point of fong. 



flderable, 



