1909.
Sept 14 [September 14, 1909]
(No 3)
the universally richer food supply (especially in winter)
in England and southern Scotland as compared with
that in most parts of eastern North America (at least along
the coastal belt); (4) to the more equable climate of
Great Britain where the extremes of heat and cold are
less than with us and where the snow fall in winter
is ordinarily much less. I do not believe that migration, 
or the lack of it with certain species, has much if anything
to do with the weather in the ways that Chapman has
suggested.
  When I asked Harvie-Brown what would happen
in his country if all the men who cared to do so were
permitted to shoot game birds whenever they wished, for a
short period each autumn, as we do in America, he
replied, without a moment's hesitation, "they would practically
exterminate everything shootable in the space of a
single month or less over the entire region within twenty
or thirty miles of Larbert". This, indeed, has already
happened with respect to Hares, which tenants are
now allowed to kill on leased farms, and with
Trout & Salmon in such streams (there are numbers
of these) as has been thrown open to the public.
Where the shooting and fishing rights remain exclusively in 
the hands of large landholders game & fish continue to
be as abundant as ever for the sportsmen who kill
them take care never to destroy more than the annual
increase and are at great pains & expense to preserve the
breeding stock against vermin of every kind. Incidentally or
indirectly many non-edible & even a few semi-game birds
benefit more largely by this protection. Thus Harvie-Brown
kills only a very few of the Lapwings which frequent his fields