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until they become, at times, real nuisances! Others who desire to 

 take up the work and do their bit, consider it impossible because they 

 live in apartments, or for various reasons have no place suitable for a 

 trapping station. To this class Clarence Jung and the writer belonged, 

 but being determined to take up this most fascinating game and help 

 in some way, more opportunities were soon found than could be used 

 to advantage. 



Our attention was first turned to a spring Robin roost in Wash- 

 ington Park. The Museum's able Director, Dr. Barrett, encouraged 



Fig. 73. — Net with extension i)()lcs used tor catfliuig lolim.s and other 

 perching birds at their "roosts." 



the idea from the first and secured a permit from the Park Commis- 

 sioner, authorizing the writer to trap birds in city parks for banding. 

 The Robins and a few Cowbirds roosted nights in some low bushes 

 and neighboring evergreen trees, the problem being simply to catch 

 them, but unfortunately there was no precedent to follow. After 

 various and sundry failures, and a sad lack of cooperation on the part 

 of the Robins, a huge net fitted to the top half of three bent bamboo 

 poles whose tips were hinged together with leather, was constructed. 

 With extension poles it reaches nearly thirty feet in the air, and is 



