WOOD-LARK. 
T ' X Sea f°™f°r catching Wood-Larks with Neta, 
and hoiu to order them. 
First, Branchers, which are birds that were 
.hatched that Spring, are taken in June and J u - 
*?' Wlth 3 net and a Hawk, after the fame man- 
her as I told yon they took Sky Larks. You 
may find thefe birds harbouring about gravel- 
fiits, upon heath and common land, and in pa.» 
fture fields. For fear of the Hawk, they will 
he fo clofe, that fometimes they buffer them- 
idves to be taken up with the hand. Thefe 
birds boon grow tame. 
Jt lie FCAi IC'ditjii 15 P*Xicll2,clTXIClS 
which are taken with clap-nets in great num- 
bers in September, and are counted better birds 
than what are catched at any other time of the 
year, becaufe keeping them all the winter 
makes them more tame than birds catched in 
January or February, and will fing longer, eight 
or nine months in the year. Wood-Larks at 
this time commonly fly very high, therefore 
the higheft ground is ufually chofe to lay the 
nets upon, likewife in a cart-way, or where a 
fpot of earth is frelh turned up, or fometime& 
you may turn it up on purpofe. 
A third feafon for taking Wood- Larks is in 
January ; what are caught at that time are very 
front, good birds, and will fing in a few days 
