;8 Of Singing-Birds.

making observation where they most delight, asyou shall perceive by their Dung, and if they bedisturbed from the place, to make to it again Nowhaving all your Tackle by you, scrape in the Ditchor Bank-side (about half a yard or more square)the Earth that it may look fresh, then take a Bird-Trap, oraNet-Trap, which is thus made > Takea Net made of Green Thread or Silk about thecompass ot a yard, made after the fashion of aShove-Net to catch Fish, or a Cabbage-Net; thenget some of your large sort of Wire, bending of itround, and joyn both ends, which you must putinto a short stick about an inch and a half long ,then you must have a piece of Iron with twoCheeks, and a hole of each side, which you mustput some Cats-gut or fine Whip-cord three or fourtimes double,that so it may hold the piece of Wood■ the better that the ends of the Wire is put into,and with a Button of each side of the Iron twistthe Whip-cord, that so the Net may play the quic-ker j you must fasten the Net to the Wire, as theydo a Shove-Net to the Hoop i then get a Board ofthe Compass of your Wire, and joyn your twoCheeks of Iron at the handle of your Board ; thenmake a Hole in the middle of your Board, and puta piece of Stick about two inches long, and a Holeat the top of your Stick, which you must have aPeg to put in with two Wires, an inch and half, tostick your Meal-Worm upon i then tie a string inthe middle ot the top of your Net,drawing the Netup, having an eye at the end of the handle to putyour Thread through, pull it till it stands upright,then pull it through the Hole of the stick that standsin the middle of your Board,and put your Peg in the

Hole,