Utility and Economy of Birds 
sion which investigated GROUSE disease, in 
1905-11, estimated that the gross rental of 
GROUSE moors in England and Scotland 
amounted to no less than {1,270,000 annually, 
It must here be noticed that the proposal to 
allow of GROUSE being shot on August 5th, 
which had been so ignominiously turned 
down in the House of Commons in 1915, was 
now effected, as regards England and Wales, 
by an enactment, under the Defence of the 
Realm Regulations, authorising the killing 
of GROUSE on August 6th. It may also be 
observed that GROUSE disease, probably due 
to overstocking in I9I5-16 and 1916-17, 
was rampant on many moors, particularly in 
Scotland. At least one County Executive 
Committee in Scotland availed itself of the 
powers conferred on it in connection with 
food production, by taking possession of a 
large GROUSE moor and appointing the tenant 
on the estate as their agent to secure the 
efficient grazing of the moor by sheep (Daily 
Mail, 18.vi.17). Feeling ran high in Scot- 
land that the PHEASANT should not receive 
the same treatment as across the Border, 
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