80 GAME PRESERVERS AIST) BIRD PRESERVERS. 



we destroy liim ; tliougli, as we have stated, we 

 have seen him kill full-grown grouse. We simply 

 cannot spare a pair of them a thousand birds 

 annually. If he would only eat grass and wild 

 flowers we should be glad to see him, but he 

 will not until the Hon lies down ^vith the lamb. 

 We believe it was Sydney Smith who observed 

 that if the hon ever does this, while his diges- 

 tion continued to be what it is, it will be with 

 the lamb ' inside him.' 



The merlin must disappear, and let all land- 

 owners console themselves by introducing at 

 least two sorts of pheasants in his place. 



The kestrel is the only wild hawk most 

 people ever see. He is a pretty object, hover- 

 ing in one spot for minutes at a time. His 

 manner of hunting is so different froui that of 

 all the others, it suggests at once the idea that 

 he is pursuing a different object. When mice 

 are plentiful he seldom takes birds ; but he will 

 not starve, and he well knows that the little 

 newly-hatched pheasants and partridges are not 

 bad eating as a change. 



