26 APRIL 1930, Page 15

This was more than the owner could endure. He fetched

his gun and shot the jackdaw, who by this time had emerged from his chimney, where he had presumably disposed of his bunch of feathers. Whether that bird was the ring- leader or whether the rest saw the tragedy and learnt its lesson is not known, but since that shot was fired, and.the bird fell dead in front of the garage doors, almost striking in his fall the pigeons' house, there has been peace in the yard. The pigeons are replacing their nests. The jackdaws inhabit the chimney some twelve yards from the pigeon house, and no daw has since been seen on or in the pigeon cot. The tame little pigeons are not harassed in any way and apparently are as free from fear as the jackdaws from- greed.

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