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EVERY GARDEN A BIRD SANCTUARY


This book 1 is an earnest plea for bird preservation, not only in places

set apart for bird sanctuaries, but in gardens small or great throughout

the land.


It tells us how to attract birds, which shrubs and plants provide

the best shelter and most attractive nesting sites, and how to outwit

their enemies. Our modern fashion of keeping hedges as low as possible

deprives birds of shelter, food, and nesting sites, and spraying and

washes are very like to poison insectivorous species. Where there is

no water birds cannot exist, but those who have neither pond nor

stream in their grounds can at least provide a shallow pan filled with

water daily for the benefit of thirsty birds.


All these things and many more are clearly set forth and if they

are carried out will bring birds and interest to the humblest plot.


We are instructed how to feed birds to the best advantage at the

smallest cost, the cheapest and most suitable nesting boxes and where

to fix them. In short, the book is indispensable to all who would like

to attract biids but are doubtful how to set about it.



ORNAMENTAL PHEASANTS


Until a few years ago hardly anyone in England at all events made

any attempt to keep, and still less to breed, foreign species of Pheasants.

Now they have “ caught on ” and the Ornamental Pheasant Society,

started only a few months ago, already has over a hundred members

all pledged to keep and breed these most ornamental birds, to import

new species and by so doing to save them from extinction, where owing

to the march of civilization their native habitats are being “ opened

up ” with the inevitable destruction of their homes and themselves

which it causes.


1 Every Garden a Bird Sanctuary, by E. L. Turner. Published by A. F. and G.

Witherby, Ltd., 326 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1. Price 5s. net.



