Birds as Food 
forests, which formerly had been sheep 
ground but had been given up to deer when 
‘““stalking’’ was at its height, now reverted 
to their original state. Great Britain at war 
commended itself as a background to an 
Americar short-story writer, who wrote in 
1916: ‘“‘A GOLDEN PHEASANT came calmly 
by, for this year the twelfth of August signi- 
fied a far different shooting and the coverts 
were undisturbed ”’ (Globe, 4.vili. 16). 
It was only to be expected that WILD- 
FOWLING by professional puntsmen and 
others should have been much out of favour 
with the naval authorities on the east coast, 
and restrictions, almost prohibitive in their 
severity, were issued under the Defence of 
the Realm Regulations (Daily Mazl, 10 .ix.16), 
As aresult, WATERFOWL became much tamer ; 
but although they seemed to realise that 
aeroplanes, patrol boats, gunfire, etc., were 
harmless to them, they still seemed to recog- 
nise a gunning punt as hostile (Feld, 30.11.18, 
p. 447). Another effect of the Admiralty’s 
restrictions was observed off East Lothian, 
where some islands, on which for many years 
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