Effect of Air-raids and Air-craft 



air-craft, " making a rare clatter/' as their 

 keeper said, "but that signified nothing, for 

 they shout their heads off every time a barge 

 passes on the canal" (Daily Mail, 22.x. 



17). 



Casualties among birds were of rare occur- 

 rence. In the summer of 1916 it was stated 

 that numbers of LINNETS had been found 

 dead near Louth, with the drums of their 

 ears split, and a complete absence of this 

 species was reported from Suffolk and Hert- 

 fordshire (Times, 4 and i8.vii.i6). In view 

 of the fact that birds did not suffer from the 

 reverberation of the guns on the battle-front, 

 the above statement becomes the more re- 

 markable. As the actual result of air-raids 

 an unlucky bird was more than once reported 

 as the only victim, and a CANARY in its cage 

 was the single casualty of an air-raid on King's 

 Lynn (Bird Notes and News, vol. vi. p. 79). 

 During the Zeppelin raid on the night of 

 September 22nd-23rd, 1916, a bomb, dropped 

 within twenty yards of a FOWL run, blew all the 

 feathers except one from a COCK'S tail. Next 

 day the bird, with truly Gallic sangfroid, was 



