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will shut out rain, may l)e put up on a polo or tree. Such a 

 box is shown in Fig. 2. 



There are many contrivances for catching sparrows on the 

 nest, some of which arc given in the bulletins of the Biologi- 

 cal Survey hereinbefore cited. There are successful devices 

 for trapping sparrows, also, which are illustrated in Farmer's 

 Bulletin 383. The simplest of these is the wire funnel trap 

 perfected by Dr. A. K. Fisher of the Biological Survey. 

 Fig. 3 shows the trap and Figs. 5 and 6 give details of con- 



FiQ. 6.— Pattern for second funnel of a trap to be 36 by 18 by 

 12 inchea. (After Biological Survey.) 



struction. This trap is easy to make and the cost of the 

 material is small. It has been tested on the agricultural 

 grounds at Washington and also in the Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens at St. Louis, and has caught hundreds of sparrows 

 in a few weeks. 



The following directions for making this trap arc quoted 

 from Farmer's Bulletin 493 : — 



The essential parts of this trap are: (1) a half funnel leading 

 into (2) an antechamber, which ends in (3) a complete funnel lead- 

 ing into (4) a final chamber. It is made of woven wire poultry 



