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A little later we were successful 1n 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 
eA by careful watching and 
Photo by Wm. I. Lyon making more changes in the 
Recertvinc Box 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 1 in one day, but we found chee 
were a few more ‘changes necessary in the receiving box of the trap; so 
we moved it again and now 
Werarlc 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- ee . 
wise to the tree they would Photo by Wm. I. Lyon 










fly away, but if it was ona Brown CeERenen 
slant they would keep away, (The illustration shows the catch in a carrying cage, 
but still continue up the which 1s the largest number of Brown Creepers we 
tree on the far side, which ever had assembled at any one time.) 
