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CHAPTEE XVII. 



HOW TO PRESERVE ALL BIRDS. 



All birds require three things: protection 

 during their breeding season, a home that suits 

 them, and to be able to procure sufficient food 

 in winter. If man chooses to provide them 

 with these blessings, probably the numbers of 

 most of our birds, from the tomtit to the 

 black-cock, might be increased to almost any 

 extent. 



We protect them by destroying, with the 

 help of our gamekeepers, or rather birdkeepers, 

 the following birds, which destroy them on 

 every day in the year, or their eggs and young 

 whenever they can find them : the falcon, the 

 buzzard, the hen-harrier, the sparrow-hawk, 

 the merlin, the raven, the crow, the magpie, 



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