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Mr. Charles W. Miller, formerly director of the Worthington 

 Society for the Study of Bird Life, has perfected an excellent 

 trap for sparrows which has been very successful, but as its 

 construction is more complicated and its manufacture more 

 expensive than that of the funnel trap, those who desire to try 

 it are referred to Farmers' Bulletin 493, in which it is illustrated 

 and described. 



A Warning. — All traps set for English sparrows are likely 

 to catch native sparrows. Therefore baited traps should not 



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Fig. 7. — Diagram for cutting out the parts of a funnel trap 36 by 18 by 12 inches. 



(After Biological Survey.) 



be used in the nesting season, and their use should not be dele- 

 gated to servants or others who cannot distinguish native from 

 introduced sparrows. All traps should be examined often, as 

 native birds left long encaged will injure themselves in trying 

 to escape. 



English sparrows are so wary that it may be difficult to en- 

 trap them. Traps have given best results in Massachusetts in 

 winter, after storms^ when snow covers much of the natural food 

 of the sparrow. It is not to be expected that trapping will suc- 

 ceed if the sparrows can get all the food they need in some 

 near-by poultry house or stable yard. Some poultry men who 



