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SNARING RABBITS 



to humanitarians on the score of its cruelty, and to render the capture 

 more in accordance with their views, various modifications of ordin- 

 ary rabbit traps have been made. " Burgess's Improved Humane 

 Trap " (Wm. Burgess & Co., Malvern Wells), Fig. 130, has india- 

 rubber-covered jaws, in which the rubber is ribbed, and in that way 



FIG. 130. BURGESS'S IMPROVED HUMANE TRAP. 



holds the leg firmly without breaking it. Traps with deep-roughened 

 iron jaws are also made for the purpose. 



SNARING RABBITS is only practicable in the open, and is gener- 

 ally practised where traps may not be used. The snares are of two 

 kinds. Ordinary, for strangling the rabbit, and knotted, for catch- 

 ing rabbits alive ; cost of the former complete is 2s. 6d. per dozen, 

 and the latter 35. In choosing places to set them, the most open 

 part, midway between the ends of the run, must be taken, and the 



