SKY-LARK, 
Several TV ays of catching Sky-Larks. 
To take Pufhers. 
^ They are birds which have left their neft 
tnree or four days : to take them, you muft 
watch in feme convenient place, as much out of 
the old ones fight as poffible; either hand clofe 
in a hedge, or lie down in the field, &c. and 
you will prefently fee them bring meat to feed 
Teh young ; which, as foon as you perceive, 
and obferve them to hover juft over the grafs’ 
& c. and dropdown on a hidden, run in upon 
them as faft as you can, where you will gene- 
rally find the young birds ; if you mifs them, 
fearch narrowly about, for they will creep into 
home hole and lie clofe, or in a large turf of 
grafs, &c. : fometimes they will runaway among 
the grafs or corn, exceeding faft ; when they 
do that, you can very feldom catch any : you 
muft wait for the old ones bringing them meat 
again ; but don’t run in the firft time ; fee if 
they come t\Vo or three times with meat, and 
fettle at the fame place ; if at different places, 
and at little diftances from each other, then you 
may be fare the young ones have ftraggled in 
the fright, and are at thofe different places ; 
you may then run in where you judge they are 
