The sport of trapping birds with the "shaou-shaou" net has been already described on p. 84. A specimen of a small one (fig. 44) which I purchased on Funafuti measured eighteen by fourteen inches across the mouth. Some nets I saw employed were twice as large. The hoop is constructed by crossing and lashing to the pole the thick ends of two slender flexible twigs, a yard in length. The tips of these were crossed, bent over one upon the other, and thrice lashed. As in the proceeding form, the hoop is secured to the handle by a T-piece. The bag is eighteen inches deep, is of large four-inch mesh, and is attached to the hoop by the process of reeving the frame through each alternate mesh.