21 DECEMBER 1907, Page 17

APPROACHING EXTINCTION OF INTERESTING ANIMALS.

• [TO THE EDITOR OP THX "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—Mr. Tallack, who writes to you about the extinction of interesting animals (Spectator, December 14th), is apparently not aware that the question has been dealt with, and the results published in a Blue-book of three hundred and ninety- one pages (Cd. 3,189) in 1906. It contains correspondence with foreign Governments since 1896. Further information on the subject is to be found in the journals of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, started in