BIRDS.
Papers have UNKNOWN in your columus relative to destractive birds. if, by an act of volition, your correpoa UNKNOWN destroy the birds of which he speaks, he \v<i!ilil :o :n wish litem :'\ hark :ij,:i!ii. A Kir.;.; o!' IVtiv.ia pr'-.cir. :■ i i-i ■ (V;!:r.:l ; .o:l of sp-.-.fi'ow.-s :l;;\u:.,!i:i:;t !il; <!.::.;::i!n:::, !;::l .suo:i rcliace.l hi.; step . o-v p.:::- of ip.:r- , rov.v. ii! :ln' sp:ii::j :>.:•..! i n: : y v.ir.:ir.:T destroy C:i";i er.li.vpiliar.; ;; v.'eek. i:i l!ii! I'i-.".h!i y.i.u: ia.vs of :,';',:!, cr theivalxiiiis, il is cspros-dy enacted that i! shall hi; lawful fiir l!i(> prefects oT i!:p;:i:;:;;':i:s to-forbid the d.-slir.elkv.i (if all : tu-.ill I ird-.-. Il is lil io add thai bird cutcliin:; is pranked on the. continent to a iiin-ileuraoro'iii.iry extent, a:id this provision is intended to check it, — I'.i-: act reciting, thai i:i cmir-jqacnce of such destruction it had heoti found thai t!ie vegetation bad itrcsiily suffered. Almost all l!ie tiiicli-liilled birds which eat corn and serfs, \v!l! v.'.fo prey i:;ien c;:ter; i'.lair-, in■jeils. nil'.! liifNii". In f.'.'-l il is diilii.uil to
name a single bird wliicli does not do as much good as linrm. The bullfinch is n sail plague. Walk out quietly among your plum trees, and you will see every now and llieii two or llirco 'of these birds quietly crushing t!ic blossoming buds all over llio tree; but these birds are nor numerous. Wood pigeons have increased of lale years, so aslo become a nuisance ; ihey will shear off enliro rows of peas as clean as n rabbit. The. two Inner named birds don-.il, as far as I am aware, compensate for (lie m'selifcr they do. The prescrv.ilion of game, causing the •■xltrp.'ilion of nearly all llio birds and animals of prey, have immensely increased the numbers of the feathered tribes, and at (he same time, in a great measure, i slopped the predatory incursions of the bird-nester in our fields ami woods, Thus the equilibrium'of check arid couutcr-eheeli, which in such things constitutes the eeo- j noniy of nature, is somewhat interfered with. Gardener's C'.ronlcle.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 139, 20 April 1854, Page 4
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337BIRDS. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 139, 20 April 1854, Page 4
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