+* O^^lTHOLOgr. Book I. 



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How to take Fieldfares with Birdlime : out of the fame, 



WHcn time is, that is about or after Michaelmas^ (hoot a Fieldfare or two, and 

 fet them in fuch order that they may feem to fit alive on a tree. Then having 

 prepared the Lime-iwigs about two, or three hundred, take a Birchen bough, and 

 cut off ail the fmall twigs, make little holes and clefts all about the bough, and there 

 place your Lime-rods: Then fet the Fieldfare upon the top bough, making him fair, 

 that he may feem alive. Let this bough be fet near where they come in a morning to 

 feed, ( for they keep a conftant place till their food is gone ) that ib flying near they 

 may efpy the top-bird : which as foon as they do, they will fall down in whole flocks 

 to him. 



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How to take Pigeons with Lime-twigs : out of the fame: 



G Eta couple of Pigeons dead or alive 5 if dead, yet order them fo; 

 ^ as if they were living and feeding. Then at Sun-fifing take you 



) as to ftand ftiff 

 j Dur twigs, what 

 quantity you pelafe .• Let them be very fmall [ Wheat-ftraws are as good or better ] 

 and place them on the ground which the Pigeons frequent, where your two Pigeons 

 are £et 5 and you (hall find you will quickly be rid of them. Two or three dozen is 

 nothing to take in a Morning if there come good flights. 



How to take Crows ■, Pies Gleads S^c. v with Lime-twigs: out of the fame. 



STick up Lime-twigs on the Carcafs of a dead Horfe newly ftripr, or any other 

 Carrion, fo foon as thefe birds have found it. Let them be very (mall, and not too 

 thick fet 5 left they perceive them, and take diftafte. 



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How to take grows and Rooks when they pull up Com by the roots: out of the fame. 



CT^^ e fo me th^ brown #aper, and divide a fheet into eight parts, and make 

 "1 them up like Sugar-loaves : Then lime the inffde of the Paper a very little 

 [ Let them be limed three or four days before you let them. ] Then put (bme Corn in 

 them, and lay fifty or fixty of them up and down the ground, as much as you can un- 

 der fome-eiod of earth, and early in the Morning before they' come to feed. Then 

 ftand at a good diftance, andyou will fee excellent (port. Forasfbon as Rook, Crow, 

 or Pigeon comes to pi^k out any of the Corn, it will hang upon his head, and he will 

 immediately fly bolt upright fo high that he fhall feem like a fmall bird, and when he 

 isfpent, come tumbling down, as if he were (hot in the Air. 



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How to take Stares with a limed firing : out of Olina'sllccelliera. 

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TAke a fmall ftrin^of a yard or thereabout long, bind it jift to the Tail of a 

 Stare,having firffearefully limed it all over, excepting onef aim next the bird. 

 Having found a flock of Starlings, come as near to them as poffible, holding your Stare 

 by the wings as near as you can, and let her go to her fellows, which as foon as you (hew 

 yourfelf to them, will prefently take wing: Your tail-tied Stare endeavouring tofe- 

 cure her felf of her liberty, thrufting her felf into the middle of her fellows, will en- 

 tangle many of them, and fb nor being able to fly, they will afford a pleafant fpe&acle 

 in tumbling down to the ground : where you muft be ready with a Brufti or Belbm to 

 ftrike them dowp* 



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