100 GAME PRESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



But Mr. Buckland remarks at the end of his 

 letter, ' I tokl tliis gentleman he was quite wrong 

 to kill these birds and beasts, for that he was 

 interfering with the Balance in Nature.' Had 

 Mr. Buckland been visiting one of this gentle- 

 man's ancestors a few hundred years ago, and 

 had he been shown the hst of wolves which he 

 had destroyed, would he have made the same 

 remark, for that was equally interfering with 

 the balance of Nature ? 



We can give no reason why the mountain 

 fox should ever be spared. He must die when- 

 ever he may be met with, per fas aut nefas. 

 He is rarely even seen by man. His presence 

 in a country is only known by the death and 

 sufferings of other useful and harmless animals. 

 He kills our beautiful grouse. We have seen 

 him when watching deer through a telescope 

 stalk them and pounce on them. He catches 

 the old birds at night, particularly in the snow, 

 where we can see his tracks ; and he takes the 

 hen on her nest. A keeper of our own one 



