. Oiseau-Lore . OW était une menace, le Starling est une gorge coupée accomplie, et quoi qu'il puisse être à la maison, ou quoi que ses contentsmai de l'estomac lui prouver à faire d'un point de vue scientifique dur et rapide, dans et aboutBirdcraft il est un bolcheviste. En un après-midi, un troupeau a dépouillé les baies 254 Bird - Lore de deux énormes arbres de pepperidge qui auraient autrement rapporté des oiseaux de tournions un mois de rations. La prise de vue à grande portée était trop risquée. Le gardien a donc rapidement mis en service un piège grossier mais efficace : une grande boîte avec couvercle à charnière, tenue en partie ouverte avec un bâton de bya auquel était attaché une corde

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. Bird-lore . ow was a menace, the Starling is an accomplished cut-throat, and whatever he may be at home, or whatever his stomach contentsmay prove him to do from a hard and fast scientific viewpoint, in and aboutBirdcraft he is a Bolshevist. In one afternoon a flock stripped the berries 254 Bird - Lore from two enormous pepperidge trees that would otherwise have yielded ournative birds a months rations. Shooting, at wide range, was too risky, so the warden soon put in use acrude but effective trap—a large box with a hinged cover, held partly open bya stick to which a stout string was attached. This string ran in through the work-shop window. The trap was baited with garbage and the Starlings did the rest. The English Sparrows, with a longer criminal experience, were, of course, more wary. We bought an approved Sparrow trap, baited it, and waited. Itwas well that the Warden also watched, for an unwatched Sparrow trapcan inflict much misery and destruction upon its inmates, as the tempting •Cf-t. NORTHERN SHRIKE AND TWO SPARROWS IT KILLED IN THE TRAP seed-bait lures both the just and unjust. Among the birds caught the veryfirst season were Song Sparrows, Juncos, Field Sparrows, White-throats galore, as well as Towhees, and even a Thrasher. For a few minutes the trapped bird is unafraid and engaged in feeding, butas soon as there is a general fluttering among the inmates, the birds begin adash for freedom, and unless the trap is visited, the detrimental birds removedand the rest set free, broken feathers and bleeding, battered heads result; andan all-night neglect of the trap, in even moderately cold weather, will show apitiful array of little stark bodies next morning. At times such a trap is anecessity, but at best it is one of the greatest responsibilities of the Warden. For this reason the use of the trap in the new general experiment of bird-banding should be very carefully considered. The banding of adult birds, if Stories from Birdcraft Sanctuary 255 careful

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