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NATURE NOTES 
Bird-Protection Order. — We have received from the 
Home Office a copy of a Wild Birds Protection Order for the 
county of Somerset, dated April 30, with a duration of five years. 
By it all birds are protected on the six and a half miles of coast 
from East Quantoxhead to the Grey Rock, Blue Anchor Point, 
Old Cleeve ; and all eggs for fifty yards inland from Sparkhayes 
Lane, Luccombe, to Shurton Bars, Stogursey ; the Sheldrake 
is protected throughout the county from the end of February 
to the first of September ; and a number of other species are 
added to the schedule of the Act of 1880. 
Prickly-Pear Blossoms Park. — Mr. W. H. C. Nation, of 
Rockbeare, Devonshire, has presented to the National Trust 
land, to the extent of about twenty-one acres, on the top of 
Rockbeare Hill, a few miles east of Exeter. The land is, in 
part, covered by a wood, in part by open heath, and, by the 
wish of the donor, it is to be called “Prickly-Pear Blossoms 
Park,” after Mr. Nation’s book of poems. The summit com- 
mands extensive and beautiful views over the valley of the 
Exe. 
Avon Gorge. — In spite of all remonstrances the Corporation 
of Bristol are, we understand, continuing their policy of van- 
dalism as regards the quarrying at Leigh Woods. As the 
argument, from a fancied economy, is always a strong one with 
many ratepayers, whose souls — or apologies for want of soul — 
are in their pockets, we would again urge that far more durable 
road-metal can be obtained elsewhere, whilst the destruction of 
the beauties of Clifton, if penny wise, is pound foolish. 
Sicedi.inc; Ckdak. 
