WOOD-LARK. 
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after they are taken, both ft outer and louder 
than one taken in September, but not fmg fo 
many months : thefe are catched with the clan- 
net like wife, as they are at Michaelmas, and are 
found at that time of the year lying near a 
wood-fi.de in pafture ground, where the fun 
riles, 
W ood-Larks are fometimes taken when they 
are matched with their hen, which I think is 
wrong: they flrould by no means be difturbed 
in breeding-time, or when they are preparing 
for it : the end of January ought to be the late ft 
time for taking tbefe birds, becaufe they are 
early breeding birds, that, if the weather be 
mild, couple at that time, or foon after; be- 
ftdes, the bird taken then is worth very little; 
his true, he will ling almoft as foon as you have 
him, by re.afon of his ranknefs in accompany- 
ing with the lien, but will foon fall oft from 
his fong, and you hear but little more from him 
all that Sum eiv 
All the Wood-Larks, taken at different fea- 
fons, niuft be fed alike witn hemp feed bluffed, 
very fine, and mixed with bread and egg hard 
boiled and grated, or chopped as lrnall as pofi* 
fible. When he is fir it taken, he will be fir/ 
for a little time ; you hiuft lift fine red gravel 
in the bottom of his cage, and fatter fame ot 
his meat upon it, which will entice him to eat 
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