Between these two long parts there are five shorter essays which I haveretained with little alteration, and these in one or two instances areconsequently out of date, especially in what was said with bitterness inthe essay on "Exotic Birds for Britain" anent the feather-wearingfashion and of the London trade in dead birds and the refusal of womenat that time to help us in trying to save the pretty ferocious bird lifeof this country and of the world generally from extermination. Happily,the last twenty years of the life and work of the Royal Society for theProtection of Birds have changed all that, and it would not now be toomuch to say that all right-thinking persons in this country, men andwomen, are anxious to see the end of this iniquitous traffic.

W. H. H.