Utility and Ecgpomy of Birds 
a pair of PEREGRINES had tried to breed, 
were put out of bounds, to the advantage of 
the PEREGRINES, which are believed to have 
nested, and also of a small colony of Rock- 
DOVES, which before had been annually 
threatened with extinction (Country Life, 2. 
ix.16). Towards the end of 1916 suggestions 
appeared in the newspapers that, as there 
were no shooting parties, soldiers should enter 
upon preserves and estates and kill a proper 
amount of GAME, paying the owners a fair 
price per head for the GAME shot; it was 
further suggested that the GAME would be 
very useful for food and that the shooting 
would be most excellent practice for the 
New Armies (Daily Mail, 18.xi.16). Other 
letters appeared about this time suggesting 
all sorts of birds as valuable additions to our 
menu, young CORMORANTS, HERRING-GULLS, 
and GANNETS, especially the last, being 
recommended (Daily Mail, 19.11.17). These 
letters were devoured with avidity by our 
enemies, and the Berlin Zeitung am Muittag, 
quoting the ‘‘ London newspapers,’’ literally 
‘“‘eulled”’ its readers into the belief that we were 
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