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NATURE NOTES 
that county ; and extending the close time in the County 
Borough of West Bromwich from the last day of February till 
August 13, adding the blackbird, tree creeper, pied flycatcher, 
spotted flycatcher, house martin, sand martin, starling, swallow, 
swift, thrush, tit and wagtail, to the schedule of the Act of 1880, 
protecting a number of species, including dabchick, hoopoe, 
kingfisher, lark, house and sand martin, nightingale, nightjar, 
nuthatch and robin throughout the year, and protecting the eggs 
of hobby kestrel, and most of the species just-mentioned, within 
that borough. 
Bird-Protection in St. Louis. — A fine of $10 is imposed 
in this city on any woman seen in any public place with a bird 
in her hat. Meanwhile a West-end shop in London exhibits a 
quantity of gulls ticketed “ Guaranteed real birds, reduced to 
2S. 6|d.” 
The Care of Trees by the Commissioners of Woods and 
Forests. — We have been so often struck by the neglect of the 
trees in Richmond Park, that we were not surprised when a 
letter from Mr. W. Tindal King, of Hampton, to the Referee of 
January 18, called our attention to similar neglect in Bushey 
Park. His Majesty, it appears, allowed the London United 
Electric Tramway Company to replace the oak fence between 
Hampton Court and Hampton by an open iron fence, the work 
being directed to be done under the supervision of the Depart- 
ment of Woods and Forests. There are along this margin of 
Bushey Park some twenty-five old elms, some of them as much 
as 18 feet in circumference, which have already lost not 
only most of their dangerous horizontal limbs, but in many 
cases their tops, and have suffered from the negative injury of 
neglect. Between them are some thrifty young horse-chestnuts. 
A dwarf brick wall with concrete foundations three feet down 
has now been built to carry the iron-railing, within a few inches 
of the stems of these trees, the roots of which have in many 
cases been simply hacked off by the builders. The roots on the 
other side, i.e., towards the Thames, were cut through some 
years ago to make way for some water-mains. The soil has also 
been lowered round the base of the trees, in some cases as much 
as two feet, so as to expose some of their maimed roots. Mr. 
King sent us a piece some three feet long and four inches thick 
which he had picked up on the spot, and bur own inspection 
showed that the fine old wrecks and the young trees alike had 
been so needlessly ill-treated as to certainly check their growth 
and not improbably kill some of them. We should like to know 
what supervision the department exercised. 
The Kearton Nature Photograph Exhibition. — From 
January 2, to February 13, the Messrs. Kearton had on view 
at the Modern Gallery, Bond Street, some 150 enlargements of 
Nature photographs taken by them. Being only able to visit 
