A Simple Rat-Trap Used by the Shan Villagers of the Northern Shan States, Burma
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_ Two specimens of rat-traps in use by Shan villagers in the Northern Shan States of ?Burma have been sent me by Major H. F. L. Duckworth, i.m.d., Civil Surgeon and District Health Officer, Northern Shan States. These *raps are of great interest because of their ingenuity and simplicity of construction. They can be made up in any bamboo-growing country at next to no cost because they are constructed solely of bamboo wood and string. Fig. 1 shows the trap in the " released "
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