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In removing sparrows from either a funnel or a sieve trap the receiving 

 box shown (Fig. 9) will be fomid useful. It should be about 6 inches 

 square and 18 inches long, inside measurement. The door, hinged at 

 the bottom and turning inward, is controlled by the part of its wire frame 

 extending through the side of the box to form a handle. The box as it 

 appears in the figure is ready to be placed before the open door of a trap 

 from which birds are to be driven. ^ 



Mr. Charles W, ]\Jiller, 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 



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

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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. 



Sparrows are so wary that it may be difficult to entrap 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 succeed 

 if the sparrows can get all the food they need in some near-by 

 poultry house or stable yard. Some poultry men who keep 



1 Dearborn, Ned, The English Sparrow as a Pest, U. S. Dept. of Agr., Farmers' Bulletin 493, 

 1912, pp. 17-20. 



