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only worth a halfpenny. — ^It was said that 

 defendant's employer did a big business in 

 birds. The apparatus was confiscated. 



Bird -CATCHING. — At Reading, on Novem- 

 ber 15th, John lies, professional bird- 

 catcher, was fined £2 and costs for taking 

 two Linnets, birds scheduled under the 

 Reading Order ; defendant said he knew 

 nothing of the bye-law, but the bench 

 decUned to believe his evidence. — At 

 Kingston, Henry Heath, of Fulham, was 

 convicted of catching Chafiinches at Esher. 

 Decoys and apparatus confiscated. 



Catching Goldfinches. — ^At Nottingham, 

 on October 18th, Wilham Bonnett and 

 Horace Read were fined 10s. each for using 

 nets to catch Goldfinches. A braced Gold- 

 finch was the decoy, and several Linnets 

 and Goldfinches were in cages. Birds and 

 nets were confiscated. — ^At Exmouth, Thomas 

 Maunder was fined 5s. for catching Gold- 

 finches with lime and call-birds at Littleham, 

 on October 19th. The birds were liberated 

 and cages and gear forfeited. — ^At Dor- 

 chester, on November 22nd, Charles Brown, 

 of Slater-street, Bethnal Green, was fined 

 £1 and 13s. costs for taking two Goldfinches. 

 He was found Mdth nets and five decoy 

 birds — Goldfinch, Lark, and three Linnets — 

 and in his cages were the two Goldfinches 

 and a number of Linnets and Chaffinches, 

 all very wild. The man had been in Dorset 

 for about seven weeks in company with 

 a man named Matthews, and had been 

 sending off birds to London three or four 

 times a week, doing a huge business. — ^At 

 Uxhridge, on October 6, George Mattingley 

 was fined 6s. for taking a Goldfinch and 

 four Linnets, and 20s. for cruelty to a decoy 

 Linnet. Nets destroyed and birds Hberated. 

 — ^At Finchley, James Hayes got off A\ith 

 payment of costs, 7s. 6d., for use of nets 

 and decoy birds. He had in his possession 

 a sack, nine cages, nets, pegs, etc.. Linnets, 

 Redpolls, Goldfinch, Siskin, and Bullfinch. 

 Birds liberated and tackle forfeited. 



A pair of Ruddy She Id-drakes, belonging to 

 Lord Newton, at Lyme Park, Disley, but 

 left — as all naturahsts would wish them 

 left — unpinioned, have been shot on the 

 Stretford sewage-farm. It is much to be 

 desired that pubHc authorities would totally 

 prohibit shooting of birds on public property. 



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