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  • entrance to the traps, along with anything else that will grow. There is trouble in getting suitable evergreen plants. In the case of one recently made trap coils of barbed wire are placed in the field in front of the trap + into the outer part. In experience birds move very well from coil to coil + into the trap. When a bird is driven in the half way gate is closed + as soon as the bird enters the catching cage a drop door is lowered to trap it. The catching cage is shaped thus [TRAP DIAGRAM] drop door, glass, ramp from trap end, glass, sleeve [text in diagram] The birds are put into a box fitted with glass front + sleeve. Or they are taken into the banding house + put into compartment boxes each with sliding door + "occupied" sign. Rings are mounted on knitting needles of size appropriate to open them to the needed point. these are set in a row in holes in a wooden block in front of the bander. Wing lengths of all birds are taken + recorded using a ruler with an attached raised end piece against which the wing nuckle [knuckle] is placed as the
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