. OW era una minaccia, lo Starling è un completo cut-gola, e qualunque sia a casa, o qualunque sia il suo contentsMay di stomaco lo provi a fare da un punto di vista scientifico duro e veloce, in ed aboutBirdcraft è un bolscevista. In un pomeriggio un gregge ha spogliato le bacche 254 Bird - Lore da due enormi alberi di pepperidge che altrimenti avrebbero ceduto uccelli di un mese razioni. Le riprese, a portata di campo, erano troppo rischiose, quindi l'operaio presto mise in uso una trappola acrude ma efficace: Una grande scatola con coperchio incernierato, tenuta parzialmente aperta da un bastone a cui era attaccata una corda stout

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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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