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people to go to see it, but that not one would go to shoot it. That 
was the particular sort of millenium which this Society wanted to 
bring about; and when it was reached the Society might be 
dissolved, because it would have come to embrace the whole 
country. But that state of things was a long way off. The wax¬ 
wing was not nearly as strong an instance of the destruction of 
rare birds as might be given, because it was only a winter visitor 
to this country, along with the fieldfare, the redwing, and bramble- 
finch, and did not stay to breed. But there were other birds, like 
the hoopoe, which came rarely, but came in the breeding season ; 
and if they were only left undisturbed, the number of British birds 
might be enriched by new breeding species. 
A great deal more might be done to preserve wild bird life by 
establishing sanctuaries as St. James’ and other parks of Jjondon 
were sanctuaries for the gulls. A very large number—perhaps 
half—of the gulls which came every winter to St. James’ Park were 
young ones brought by the old birds. So that once a sanctuary 
was formed the happy relations established between bird and man 
might go on indefinitely and for ever. Another instance was that 
of Waterton’s Park in Yorkshire, where numbers of birds settled 
simply because the place was left undisturbed. Another case he 
knew of was a small place consisting only of a garden and two 
ponds, where almost at any time in the winter four different species 
of wild duck might be seen, and of these some, at any rate, spent 
the whole winter there. 
It was quite true that only a few people had parks and lakes 
out of which they might make sanctuaries, and not everybody could 
have even a garden and a pond; but a very large number of people 
could spend some time in their holidays walking about roads and 
lanes and pathways or along the shore ; and if they would only 
train their eyes and their ears, they would find that the walk by 
the shore with a pair of field glasses would give them more pleasure 
than any sportsman could get out of the same walk by going with 
a gun. When that happy state of feeling was arrived at shooting 
would become restricted to birds which were of use for food. The 
Society had no quarrel with sport which consisted in shooting birds 
which were plentiful and which were used for food, and none of 
the legislation which it had promoted had ever interfered with sport 
in any way. On the contrary the enforcement of that legislation 
would promote preservation, which was of course one of the objects 
of the sportsman as well as the actual shooting. The chief difficulty 
really was the private collector, the man who wished to have a rare 
specimen in his own private museum. Now there were collectors 
and collectors. A collection of living things, such, for instance, as 
that of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Park, where the animals 
and birds could breed and live a natural existence was, he thought, 
an entirely good collection, and interested people, not in the death, 
but in the life of animals, and that was a thoroughly good 
