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IRatuce Motes : 
XEbe Scibornc Society’s flDaon.^ine. 
No. 188. AUGUST, 1905. VoL. XVI 
SELBORNIANA. 
Prizes for Juniors — A New Departure. — The attention 
of our younger readers is directed to the particulars — given 
among the “ Selborne Society Notices” at the end of this 
number — of a new scheme put forward by our Council for 
their benefit. This is the offer for competition among our 
junior Members and Associates of prizes in connection with 
the objects of the Society. For the present, one prize of half- 
a-guinea is to be offered monthly, and full details as to the 
subject and conditions of the first competition will be found 
on p. 157. 
Local “ Zoos.” — Simultaneously from York and from Cardiff 
suggestions reach us for the establishment of local Zoological 
Gardens. Given suitable space, in which the animals can be 
maintained in health, and adequate funds for their acquisition 
and maintenance, much may be said in favour of such a multi- 
plication of our opportunities for seeing exotic animals in a 
living state. We fully recognise that a mismanaged zoological 
garden may become a repulsive exhibition of cruelty, and we 
could wish that a larger proportion of the inhabitants of our 
provincial towns devoted some of their leisure to the loving 
study of our native fauna and flora in their natural surroundings; 
but at the same time a well laid-out garden with flowers, a band 
and refreshments, properly constructed aviaries, stabling and 
paddocks, may prove something more than a mere urban 
promenade. We hope, however, that no town will attempt 
anything of the sort “on the cheap.” It is essentially a case 
for the munificence of some wealthy citizen rather than one 
for doles from the rates. 
The New Forest. — “A cry comes from the New Forest 
that certain kinds of birds are still diminishing in number in 
that lovely pleasaunce. Magpies, jays, and birds of the hawk 
tribe are becoming especially scarce, and a correspondent who 
