+ SOME CHANGES IN THE COUNTY ORNIS. 
being met with on migration during the fall months. A 
reason often given for their disappearance is that they have 
been destroyed by the cold in severe weather. A much 
more potent cause occurs to us, namely, the breaking up of 
the furze brakes, in which, Montagu wrote, he had found 
their nests, and the systematic method of burning the furze 
along the cliffs, which would be found ideal nesting sites ; 
and to this cause also may reasonably be attributed the 
disappearance of the large blue butterfly. 
We have touched only on some of the most obvious 
changes in bird life in one portion of the county. It re- 
mains to be seen if the recent legislation on the subject of 
the further protection of wild birds and their eggs will 
produce the desired result. 
