SCOTTISH PLOVERS.
Good news for lovers and protectors of birds may be reported from Scotland, where the protective societies have a bigger membership than at any time in their history. They hope this March and April to be entirely successful in saving the lapwing's or plover's eggs from the exigent gourmet. The spirit of the work of conservation seems to have invaded county councils, police, educational authorities and, not least, school teachers, with the best results. The pairs of plovers are rather more common than usual in the Home Counties, where their worst enemy is not the egg stealer but the technique of farming by which the roller is used over the young corn. I have seen so many nests in the last few years in the valleys and meadows, and so few on the tilths, that I have been inclined to wonder whether the pairs have not discovered where the danger lies.
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