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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Photo by Wm. I. Lyon 



Receiving Box 



A little later we were successful in making an unusual record by 

 getting a few Black and White Creeping Warblers and found that they 

 were very gentle and quiet if you held them a few moments quietly and 



stroked and petted them. 

 They would sit on your 

 hand long enough to have 

 their pictures taken. 



We were successful in 

 getting two Hairy Wood- 

 peckers last fall in this 

 trap; and this spring and 

 this fall we took a number 

 of Yellow-bellied Sapsuck- 

 ers. Finally, in September 

 and October, the Brown 

 Creepers came back; and 

 by careful watching and 

 making more changes in the 

 traps we finally got the 

 successful model, and one 

 day found ten Brown Creepers in one trap when we first took it down 

 in the morning. 



During the rest of that day we were successful in getting twelve more, 

 so it made twenty-two Brown Creepers in one day, but we found there 

 were a few more changes necessary in the receiving box of the trap; so 

 we moved it again and now 

 we are ready to show you 

 what we call our 1924 model 

 of Woodpecker trap. 



The first illustration 

 shows how it is placed 

 around the tree but does 

 not show the important 

 feature that the opposite 

 side begins much farther 

 down the tree and comes 

 up on a slant; that is, we 

 noticed if the birds came 

 up against an obstruction 

 like a piece of wire cross- 

 wise tO the tree they WOuld Photo by Wm. I. Lyon 

 fly away, but if it was on a Brown Creepers 



slant they would keep away, (The illustration shows the catch in a carrying cage, 

 but Still continue up the which is the largest number of Brown Creepers we 



tree on the far side, which ever had assembled at any one time.) 



