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Any owner, occupier, or other person, taking or destroying the eggs of these birds in 
the above places is liable to a penalty of £1 for each egg. ; 
Wild Birds Protection Act, 1896.—In addition to any penalty under the Act of 1880, 
ae pus may now order any trap, net, snare, etc., used by the offender, to be 
orfeited. 
The Great Crested Grebe and the Little Grebe are both protected all the year round in 
the County of Stafford, and the Little Grebe in East Sussex ; and Hastings (C.B.). 
VII. Remarks. 
How lifeless would be our lakes, meres, and broads—and in fact all our inland sheets of 
water—without their bird life! With what pleasure do we always point out the Coot, the 
Water Hen, the Wild Duck, and the elegant and ornamental Grebes, swimming upon the 
water, often attended by their brood of young. And yet, that tyrant, “fashion,” has 
greatly diminished the numbers of these birds, and travelling round, as fashion does, in 
cycles of years, it is once more taking a deadly toll of these poor birds. The beautiful soft 
and silky texture of the breast feathers of the Grebes has once more caused woman’s love of 
novelty to select these skins as trimmings for her dress, with the result that during the last 
two or three years hundreds of thousands of Grebes have been sacrificed to the goddess 
Fashion, and their young, probably, left to perish by a slow, lingering death of starvation, 
the feathers of birds being in their brightest sheen during the nesting season. Most of these 
Grebe skins have been supplied from Russia and the North of Europe, and North America, 
the principal homes of the Grebes ; but our own native birds have, no doubt, also been called 
upon to provide their share to meet fashion’s remorseless demand. Thanks to some of our 
County Councillors, some protection is now afforded to these birds, but we do appeal 
to woman’s better feelings and better nature, as well as to her well-known tender heart, to do 
all in her power (and women really have it in their power to put a stop to this senseless and 
cruel fashion) to allow us to still have the pleasure of admiring our native birds in their 
natural freedom. One word, too, to the owners of inland sheets of water where our 
Grebes are found, as to preserving them as sanctuaries for these birds, their eggs and 
young, so that they may afford a pleasure not only to the proprietors themselves, 
but also to all lovers of nature. The quotation from Dr. McAldowie at the heading 
of this pamphlet is a truth which every landowner should bear in mind; for if once these 
birds are shot, or driven away by persecution, they cannot be reintroduced, as many other 
wildfowl may be, by man, and “a thing of beauty” which “ is a joy for ever” will be lost for 
ever, as is already the case with the Crane, the Egret, the Avocet, the Spoonbill, and so 
many more of those beautiful birds which were once ornithological ornaments of our inland 
waters. 
Educational Series.—No. 1.—-OWLS. No. 2.—WOODPECKERS. No. 3.—STARLING. No. 4.— 
SWALLOWS. No. 5.—KINGFISHER. No. 6.—OSPREY. No. 7.—DIPPERS. No. 8.—-NIGHTJAR. 
No. 9.—TITMICE. No. 10.—KESTREL. No. 114.—PLOVERS. No. 12.—TERNS. No. 13.—WAGTAILS. 
No. 14.—CHOUGH. No. 15. JAY. No.16.—SKUAS. No.17.—FLYCATCHERS. No. 18.—NIGHTINGALE. 
No. 19.—GULLS. No. 20.--LEAF-WARBLERS. No. 21.—PIPITS. No. 22.—SKYLARK. 
No. 23.—GREBES. No. 24.—COMMON BUZZARD. 
Copies of the above may be obtained from the Society’s Publishing Department, Knowledge Office, 
326, High Holborn, W.C., or from the Hon. Sec., Mrs. F. E. Lemon, Hillcrest, Redhill, on the following 
terms :—Post free: three copies of any one number of the Series, 1d.; one dozen, 3d.; 100, 1s. 6d. 
Assorted packets, one copy of any six numbers, 2d.; one copy of any twelve, or two copies of any six 
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