212 THE TITS 



are thirty miles to a motorist, and what protection was Danae's tower 

 against Zeus' shower of gold ? 



This modern menace to bird life is a very real one, as any man 

 who has been in the habit of living with these rarer birds in their 

 breeding-haunts knows only too well. A given area will be stripped 

 of its best treasures in a single week-end, and the loss attributed to 

 " stoats " or " hawks " ; and thus many a landowner, who has the real 

 interests of his birds at heart, is gulled in this manner by over-tempted 

 and consequently corrupted keepers. 



