THE ROBIN RED BREAST.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 145, 18 December 1897, Page 2

THE ROBIN RED BREAST.

TO TIIK EDITOR. Sib, — I wish to enter my strong protest against tbe desire of tbe " Govern ment Pomologist" as expressed in his letter published in this evening's Star tbat the Dunedin people will keep to themselves tbe English robins which have been brought over ia tbe Gothic, and to express a hops that they may be permitted to increase and multiply and spread themselves all over tbe colony until they become as plentiful at they are in England where tbe robin is tbe general favourite of every one both on account of iti social habits and his reputation as a sweet songster during all seasons of the yaar. No one in England ever dreams ot shooting or injuring a robin. I lived amongst and was familiar with tbe habits of tbe robin daring tbe first 60 years of my life and never heard the slightest complaint made agaioot their destractiven*Hß iv gardens or elsewhere, aud your correspondent i.s, I am sure, quite mistaken in his assertion that " there is no more destructive bird" on small fruit than tbe English robin. I am, etc , SAML GOODBEHKRK. Feilding, December 17, 1897.