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search be made in these latter, several places will be dis- 

 covered where certain rabbits have formed seats under 

 small but thick-set bushes of the gorse. In those of 

 sufficient length for the method to be practicable, a dead 

 rabbit should be propped up to represent one sitting in the 

 retreat, and a trap set at the entrance, and one at the back 

 of the small sort of tunnel which exists. In most cases, 

 the vermin, seeking capture of the rabbit, will be trapped 

 in the one set at the back, so that it is not advisable to 

 omit the second tilling. 



A modification of this, and one eminently suitable to 

 small level openings in a plantation, is to form a small 

 oval enclosure of little branches, preferably of thorn, suffi- 

 ciently closely placed to prevent the ingress of vermin 

 except at the openings left. The sides should be about 

 lyd. long and i8in. apart at the widest, and ought to 

 slope sharply towards one another at each end, leaving 

 two narrow entrances, just about the size which a gin 

 would nicely fit. In the centre of this fix up as bait either 

 a dead bird, rabbit, or some other- morsel likely to tempt 

 the vermin which may have detected the lure to endeavour 

 to obtain it, which desirable end may only be achieved by 

 its passage through one of the narrow openings ; each one, 

 however, must be carefully provided with a neatly tilled 

 gin, ready to capture any intruder that may venture thus 

 far. This mode requires some amount of care and trouble, 

 but is sufficiently productive of good results, when the site 

 is well chosen, to warrant its adoption in such places as 

 the trapper may deem satisfactory. Everitt's trap is very- 

 suited for work under these conditions. 



Parks, and especially those surrounded with close 

 palings, are favourite localities for vermin, and many 

 opportunities round these wooden fences are offered for 

 employing traps. The kind of paling alluded to is that 



