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MR. W. RODIER, of Tambua, Cobar, New South Wales, has forwarded to this Society a printed sheet, containing, as it appears to me, by far the best suggestion yet made for the extermination of rabbits—a subject to which my attention has been repeatedly called by various correspondents in the Australian colonies, where, as is well known, the damage done by these animals is enormous. Mr. Rodier states that his plan has been in operation at his station in New South Wales for about eight months “with the utmost possible success,” and has cleared the country of rabbits. It is a very simple plan. Ferrets and nets are used in the usual way to capture the rabbits, but while all the females taken are destroyed, the males are turned out again uninjured.
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SCLATER, P. The Rabbit Pest . Nature 39, 493–494 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039493a0
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