[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sin,--I have just returned
from a holiday on the Wigtownshiro coast, where I was horrified. to and that every beach and rock was inhabited by oil-begrimed sea-birds rendered unable to fly, slowly dying, broken and battered by the waves.' • off thewere black attempting, , The doomed birds were so numerous, it' was impossible to • shut one's eyes to thetr.avl,uassehryot. he thick : Visitors rather unsuccessfully, to and ttheir a effort ort s areell. with tpetrol. I trust that the Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds are combating actively this unnecessary and preventable. rrulgtting truly, 11 of our sea-birds, d that the support of the thinking puh t [The question of international action in this matter is being considered . by the League of Nations at the instance of thi British Government.En. TO Spectator.]
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