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Such animals are to be obtained chiefly by setting traps in likely 

 places, runs and mouse-holes being specially looked for. A stock of 

 small metal traps should be taken out by the collector, who should 

 also look out for effective native traps. Pitfall-traps, made out of 

 glass or metal jars sunk in flush with the ground, are also very 

 often successful. 



N.B. — In view of the pathological importance of Ticks as trans- 

 mitters of injurious blood-parasites from one mammal to another, 

 sportsmen and trappers may do great service to science by collecting 

 the ticks so often to be found adhering to the skins of living or 

 freshly killed animals. The ticks should be placed in alcohol in a 

 glass tube, and labelled with the locality, the date, and the name or 

 number of the infested host. (See also pp. 98 and 100.) 



