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animals which gave so much delight to child- 
ren about 100 are left. The camels andi llamas 
have all been killed. There are elephants, 
tigers, lions, and bears. Hagenbeck says that 
many of the elephants were killed for food. 
THAT I hear from New York that no ruminants 
of any kind will be permitted into the United 
States for at least a year. I wonder, then, 
what will become of the suggested consignments 
from East Africa and other ports. 
The World's Company will not capture the 
New York trade if this restriction remains in 
force. There will be no demand for them in 
Great Britain. 
THAT the peregrine falcon which has made its 
home in the Cardiff City Hall tower for the 
past four years was shot by a pigeon fancier 
yesterday while it was killing a homer. 
The bird, measuring three feet across the 
wings, is reputed to have destroyed more than 
a thousand pigeons, including a number of 
noted fliers owned by the fancier whoi yesterday 
shot it. 
THAT " The East London Advertiser" states that 
at the meeting of the Stepney Board of Guar- 
dians on Thursday being the last which will be 
held before the election, the Chairman, Coun- 
cillor J. D. Hamlyn, entertained his colleagues 
to' a very enjoyable high tea in the Board Room. 
During the proceedings, Father Higley, in pre- 
senitng the ivory mallet which he hasi used dur- 
ing his year of office to the Chairman, moved 
a hearty vote of thanks to him for the courtesy, 
ability, and hospitality he had displayed. 
THAT to bring together students of wild birds, 
Dr. W. E„ Collinge, 3, Queen's Terrace, Edin- 
burgh, has issued a circular announcing the 
proposed foundation of the Wild Bird Investi- 
gation Society. The principal object of the 
proposed organization is to influence and edu- 
cate the public regarding the destructiveness 
or utility of wild birds to agriculture, forestry, 
and horticulture, and to improve the existing 
laws n this connexion. 
THAT " Cage Birds" states that the attention of 
the Food Controller has been called to the high 
prices charged to breeders for canary seed, and 
in view of the importance of maintaining the 
Canary breeding industry in this country he will 
consider the desirability of fixing prices for 
canary seed, unless sellers as a whole bring 
the prices more into line with the prices now 
being asked for the more recent and plentiful 
arrivals. 
Prior to the war there was a considerable 
export trade in Canaries, our chief competitor 
in this trade being Germany, and it is import- 
ant that breeders in this country should be able 
to secure this trade unhandicapped by artifi- 
cially high prices for the principal article of the 
birds' diet. 
THAT for a number of years in Norway the bea- 
ver has been protected all the year round, and 
the State has compensated landowners for any 
damage done by it. Of late the compensation 
thus paid has amounted to 10,000 kroner a year, 
and it has been thought well to alter the law 
to the extent of allowing beavers to be killed 
from October 20 to 31. On every registered 
property only one beaver a year may be killed, 
and that only by the owner of the land, or the 
person to whom he has specially transferred 
his right. , 
THAT at the last general meeting of the Zoo>- 
logical Society, which took place on the 19th 
ult. , the Vice-president (the Marquess of Sligo) 
in the chair, no fewer than twenty-six new fel- 
lows were elected, among the number being 
Viscountess Falmouth, Lady Violet Farquhar 
and Lady Margaret Leighton. Twenty-two 
candidates for the fellowship were proposed, 
and it was ordered that they should be balloted 
for at the next monthly general meeting. The 
report of the council for the month of February 
was then read by the Secretary, in which it was 
stated that forty-two additions to the Society's 
menagerie had been made during that month. 
It was also stated that there was a decrease in 
the number of visitors as compared with the 
February of last year, a circumstance that might 
be considered attributable to the great inclemen- 
cy of the weather; while an increase of seven 
fellows elected or re-admitted was shown as 
compared with the corresponding period in 
1918. 
THAT the presence of a kestrel hawk in St. 
James's Park is of particular interest to one 
readaer of these columns. Over 12 months 
ago, he tells us, when visiting a South- London 
street market, he saw a bird-catcher take a 
beautiful kestrel hawk from a dirty sack. It 
was a splendid specimen, and to the eye of a 
bird-lover was obviously "recently taken," the 
hawk having no- doubt "stooped" at the bird- 
catcher's lure. 
The man was keen on getting rid of the 
bird quickly, and our correspondent bought it. 
After giving the hawk a piece of his ration 
from the Sunday joint, our friend released it in 
St. James's Park, at the corner abutting on 
Birdcage Walk. The bird which another bird- 
lover tells us he saw on Saturday afternoon may 
or may not be the same as the one released over 
a year ago. 
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