MIDDLESEX BIRDS : BIRD - NESTING BOYE, BEWARE!
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—So insufficient is our legislative protection of bird life that too much publicity cannot be given to any improvement that may be enacted. In this connection the new order made by the Home Secretary is something to be thankful for, and I ask your kind indulgence to state it. Briefly, the taking or destroying of the eggs of the following wild-birds is pro- hibited within the county of Middlesex :—Nightingale, gold- finch, lark, nightjar, woodpeckers, kingfisher, cuckoo, owls, kestrel, buzzard, honey-buzzard, merlin, bobby, osprey, wry- neck, swallow, martins (two), swift, bearded-tit, shrikes, magpie, wheatear, stonechat, whinchat, redstart, flycatchers, sedge-warblers, reed-warbler, blackcap, garden-warbler, wood- warbler, willow-warbler, chiffchaff, whitethroat, lesser white- throat, long-tailed tit, nuthatch, wren, golden-crested wren, wagtails (four), hawfincb, linnet, buntings (three), starling, landrail or corncrake, and coot.—I am, Sir, &e., Bellgarth, Hendon, April 18th. JOSEPH COLLINSON.
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