PHILIPPINES (cont'd) Management of limiting factors in anticoagulant baiting of lowland ricefield rats . . .... .29 Assessment of rat damage to corn . .. . 29 Glue stakes reduce bird damage in ricefields . 30 Use of crown baiting with wax blocks to reduce rat damage in coconut palms . . . 31 Anticoagulant residues in the ricefields . .. 36 Preliminary trial of an electric rat barrier in a farmer's ricefield . . . .. .36 Training . . . . .. ... 37 SUDAN . . . . . . 39 Indirect (population suppression) control efforts 40 Some economic aspects . . . . 40 Basis for estimates of cereal grain losses to quelea in Africa . ............ . . . . 51 Summary of major bird damage problems in the Sudan 51 Repellent testing: efficacy of methiocarb for protecting sorghum from house sparrow damage . .. 54 Field trials: Upper Nile, Blue Nile, Kordofan, and Kassala Provinces . . . .... .55 Blue Nile Integrated Agriculture Development Project 56 Rodent problems in the Sudan . . .... 56 Personnel and training . . . .... .59 Cooperation with international and national organizations . . . . 59