Effect of Atr-raids and Atr-craft 
air-craft, “‘ making a rare clatter,’ as their 
keeper said, “‘ but that signified nothing, for 
they shout their heads off every time a barge 
passes on the canal” (Daily Mail, 22.x. 
17). 
Casualties among birds were of rare occur- 
rence. In the summer of Ig16 it was stated 
that numbers of LINNETs had been found 
dead near Louth, with the drums of their 
ears split, and a complete absence of this 
species was reported from Suffolk and Hert- 
fordshire (Times, 4 and 18.vii.16). In view 
of the fact that birds did not suffer from the 
reverberation of the guns on the battle-front, 
the above statement becomes the more re- 
markable. As the actual result of air-raids 
an unlucky bird was more than once reported 
as the only victim, and a CANARY in its cage 
was the single casualty of an air-raid on King’s 
Lynn (Bird Notes and News, vol. vi. p. 79). 
During the Zeppelin raid on the night of 
September 22nd—23rd, 1916, a bomb, dropped 
within twenty yards of a FowLrun, blewallthe 
feathers except one from a Cock’s tail. Next 
day the bird, with truly Gallic sangfro1d, was 
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