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of meat in little cubes, put poison in the centre of each, and 

 scatter them around for the benefit of the wily wolf and fox, 

 the fat and festive badger, the wary golden eagle and raven, and 

 other meat-eaters in general. On our hunt for buffaloes in 

 Montana, Mr. W. Harvey Brown was our Borgia, and his indus- 

 try and strychnine laid low some of the finest small specimens 

 we obtained, including specimens of all the species mentioned 

 above. After putting out poison, search the vicinity thoroughly 

 for two or three days, and the chances are your efforts will not 

 be in vain. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam and his collectors have reduced the trap- 

 ping of the very small mammalia to an exact science, the like of 

 which I venture to say has never been seen before. They use 

 three kinds of traps the Lamb steel-trap, No. ; the Cyclone, 

 and the Climax. These are all small, all may be used with bait, 

 or quickly modified to serve as runway traps, for arvicolas and 

 the like. Boiled oatmeal mixed with corn meal is the stand- 

 ard bait used for small rodents. For shrews, small camivora, 

 and omnivorous rodents, meat baits are used, such as birds' 

 heads, intestines, pieces of skin, and meat in fact anything 

 fleshy. 



