29 MARCH 1873, Page 3

It appears. that, by a blunder in the" Wild Birds'

"Act, linnetg and chaffinches were not-enumerated amongst the kinds of birds to be protected during breeding time, and that the , birdcatchers therefore pursue their calling as- initial, declaring that they are only after linnets and chaffinehes, but not probably feeling much scruple in detaining sparrows, or _robins, or thrushes, if they Ifind them in their nets. Surely even a defeated Government might afford to introduce and pass IL brief Act, extending the protection of the Legislature to linnets-and chaffinches, without laying itself more open than it already is to the snares of the political fowler.