WILD BIRDS • IN CAGES [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] &*,—Knowing your constant interest in bird life, -I appeal to you to use your influence in preventing the' capture and destruction (which must necessarily follow) in the caging of
Snail - birds -of- sire and engaging habits. What possible pleasure can it add to anyone's life to imprison such exquisite little birds as tree-creepers, long-tailed tits, • night- ingales, or larks ?
Canaries or budgerigas or such-like are in a different category ; but tree-creepers, &c., are the joy of garden life, their graceful habits, their gentle little melodious songs, are all lost in a cage and, as Blake says, " put all Heaven is a rage "—besides, the mortality which must eventually follow of utterly unsuitable feeding. It seems needless cruelty to rob"such perfect little creatures of their natural surroundings, which bring untold joy to all lovers of country life, and which in a cage are a perpetual misery to themselves and a disgrace to their captors.—I am, Sir, &c., - Bolwick, Marsham, Norwich. J. W. BUXTON. [We agree entirely with our correspondent, and only hope that such practices will soon be made illegal.—En. Spectator.]
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