348 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Sand Grouse in Middlesex, having appeared in the month of June last), it 
will be evident that we have lost in him no ordinary supporter. His life- 
long experience as a field naturalist enabled him, when appealed to, to give 
most valuable information, and we feel sure that very many readers of 
this Journal will share the Editor’s profound regret at his demise. A man 
who has done so much for British Zoology as the late Frederick Bond 
deserves more than a mere passing notice of his death, and we reserve for 
a future number a memoir of one whom it has been our privilege and 
pleasure to know for more than a quarter of a century. In preparing this 
tribute to his memory, we need scarcely say that we shall be grateful for 
any suggestions from friends, or for the communication of facts that might 
be usefully mentioned. 
Destruction of Game and so-called Vermin.— All that is not 
“came” is “vermin,” according to most keepers: both are destroyed, the 
one because it is ‘‘ game,” the other because it is “ vermin,” and what an 
enormous destruction of animal life is the result! During the shooting 
season of 1888 the following species were killed on the Austro-Hungarian 
crown lands of Salzburg :—294 Stags, 1505 Roe-deer, 1270 Chamois, 3562 
Hares, 3 Marmots, 178 Capercailzie, 176 Black-game, 222 Hazel Grouse, 
9 Ptarmigan, 471 Pheasants, 1237 Partridges, 40 Quail, 65 Snipe, 10 Wood- 
cock, and 357 Wild Duck. Besides these there were destroyed 980 Foxes, 
252 Martens, 72 Polecats, 9 Otters, 11 Wild Cats, 76 Badgers, 9 Hagles, 
22 Owls, and 770 Hawks of various kinds. Years hence, when some of 
the wild creatures here mentioned will have become extinct, the above 
will be an interesting, though melancholy, record of man’s propensity for 
destroying life. 
BIRDS. 
The Swannery at Abbotsbury.—This famous Swannery, of which an 
illustration is given in Mr. Mansel-Pleydell’s ‘ Birds of Dorsetshire,’ has 
been so often mentioned in ‘ The Zoologist’ that readers will doubtless be 
interested to hear of a recent lawsuit concerning it, in which judgment was 
delivered by Mr. Justice Kekewich on the 10th August last. It was an 
action by the Earl of Ichester, the owner and Lord of the Manor of Abbots- 
bury, in Dorsetshire, for an injunction to restrain the Defendants Rashleigh 
and others from trespassing on Chesil Bank and the Fleet, which were 
were alleged to be part of the estate. It appeared that Chesil Bank united 
Portland with the mainland, and extended from Portland Roads in a north- 
westerly direction to Abbotsbury, where it joined the coast line. Between 
this bank and the coast there was a piece of water called the Fleet, extending 
from Portland Ferry Bridge to Abbotsbury, a distance of about nine 
miles. At Abbotsbury end there is a Swannery, which existed in Queen 
Elizabeth’s time, and contained several hundred swans. The Plaintiff 
