356 BIRD BEHAVIOUR 



which he is interested at the expense of others. 

 But Nature, let alone, does just the same ; and 

 after seven years' of observation of her policy in 

 India, it seems to me that man's methods are 

 better ; for although I am no sportsman, yet, as a 

 naturaUst, I would rather see a country swarm with 

 wildfowl and game than with Hawks and Crows. 



