Road Casualties
Casualties on the road'are not confined to human beings. The toll of birds, rabbits, hedgehogs and frogs is considerable. No one makes a return of the rabbits killed by cars at dusk and after lighting-up time, but on twenty miles of road I counted over fifty killed one morning. Before the count reached sixty I gave up, but we drew in when I noticed a carrion crow sitting on the side. He was far from spry, and only blinked an eye when I picked him up. I concluded that he had either flown into a set of telephone-wires or collided with a car. As we travelled on, he sat on my lap and seemed to revive. When we reacffed our destination he was placed on a wall, , but in a 'little while it was apparent that be was sinking, and he was quickly put out of his misery. Their failure to see a large noisy object like a car is a puzzling thing about some birds. Perhaps, like human beings, they are preoccupied.
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