232 PROTECTION OF ANIMAL LIFE 



evidence of their harmfulness has been produced, ought 

 to be temporarily excepted from the modes of protection 

 awarded them, so that, by the reduction of their numbers, 

 good may come to the country at large. But with birds as 

 with men evil is most often tempered with good*, and only 

 after long observation and careful balancing of facts can 

 a final and fair judgment be reached. Even then, I am 

 convinced, little harm would befall were the final judgment 

 to be tempered with mercy. 



