JACKDAW (§f PHEASANT TRAP 

 Although the principle of this trap is by no means 

 new, the writer had never seen it in use until last spring, 

 when the head keeper of an estate in Lincolnshire made 

 one or two for catching up hen pheasants for penning 

 purposes. 



This trap proved so successful both vyath the pheasants 

 and the jackdaws that the writer feels he will be doing a 

 good turn to brother sportsmen and to keepers by giving 

 a short account of it. 



The trap is about 8 feet long by 6 feet wade and 3^ 

 feet high, with an entrance door at the side to allow the 

 keeper to go in, the uprights being made of common stakes. 



If intended mainly for catching pheasants, it is advisable 

 to make it entirely of string netting, but if solely for jackdaws 

 and crows, the sides can be made of ordinary rabbit wire- 

 netting, wath the top in each case made of string netting. 



In the centre of the longer side an opening 1 5" square 

 should be made, and a curved passage of rabbit wire be 

 brought from the entrance to the centre of the cage, this 

 passage gradually tapering, until, on reaching the centre, 

 there is juil comfortable room for a pheasant, jackdaw^ or 

 crow to pass through. Food should be strewn inside the 

 cage and a little in the passage. 



The trap should be placed near a feeding place in the 

 coverts. Once the birds have found their way in, they have 

 not the sense to seek the only exit in the middle, but walk 

 round and round the inside of the cage trying to get out. 



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