Winged Vermin Hawk Trap. 499 



At Fig. 40 is shown a new trap, invented and patented 

 by Mr. R. J. Sankey, Margate, to which he has given the 

 title of " Gamekeeper's Friend/' and, as far as our experience 

 of this most ingenious trap goes, it is decidedly the most 

 useful means of catching feathered game and vermin we 

 know, as the advantages of capturing everything alive are 

 only too obvious. Fig. 41 shows the trap when set (the 

 nets are here not indicated), from which it will be seen 

 that the levers (E, E, E, E, in Fig. 40) which prevent the 



PIG. 41.-SETTING OP SANKEY'S HAWK TEAP. 



nets flying up together are held down by the two plungers, 

 kept apart by G (Fig. 41), which, when it falls, releases 

 them, letting them fly inwards, and the nets instantly close 

 over the capture. (A, B, C, and D in both sketches indicate 

 the framework.) We need not go into any lengthy descrip- 

 tion of how to work this trap, as the instructions and 

 particulars, which are issued by Mr. Sankey, are sufficiently 

 explicit. It is certainly by far the most humane and at 

 the same time efficacious trap we have ever seen. 



