RARE-BIRD PRESERVATION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"]
Sin,—At the last council meeting of the Selborne Society, it was determined in the cause of natural history and national education, to do all that could be done to forward the obtaining of temporary protection from the Legislature for some of the rarer British birds, which, but for some such enactment, will shortly, it is believed, become extinct. The Society is encouraged to believe that with the Sand-Grouse Protection Act of last Session as precedent, and with the Seagull Preservation Act in the Isle of Man as a contemporary example, such a measure might be obtained. Will any of your readers who have accurate knowledge of the disappear- ances of local species that need such protection, communicate with me or with F. Drewitt, Esq., M.B., 50 Brook Street P—I am, Sir, &c.,
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