PREFACE 7 



We are convinced that much of the effort now 

 being made on behalf of doomed or threatened 

 birds is misdirected ; and if the present work not 

 only helps in some measure to devise more rational 

 methods, but also excites a wider sympathy for 

 those vanishing species, its principal purpose will 

 have been attained. p -pv 



Paignton, October 1897. 



