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and the jay ; while the kestrel and the owl are 

 under surveillance never to be destroyed unless 

 detected Jlagi^ante delicto. 



Will any reader who has had the patience 

 to follow us so far, compare this list with the 

 statements made before the Committee and 

 quoted in the second chapter, that game- 

 keepers destroy every bird which is not in the 

 Game List ? 



And one gentleman states that keepers des- 

 troy ' our principal Avild birds and animals.' 



Are these murderers and calmibals our 

 principal and most valuable wild birds ? 



But some writers are never tired of atttack- 

 ing and misrepresenting field sports and all con- 

 nected with them. One gentleman last winter 

 could find no adjective strong enough to express 

 in one of the newspapers what he thought of 

 anyone who shot more than a certain number 

 of pheasants in a day, and he boasted that he 

 was proof against all arguments. We do think 

 if he could live for a couple of years as a 



