The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-12

udil-DIeeu Nlle AfdDS. lHey lHeH Ie-
 turn some thousand or more miles, and
 take up their friendship with man, of
 ten in or around crowded towns. The
 old saying that there was mo peace
 south of the line" finds It's converse.
 With the storks it is always peace
 north of the Mediterranean. There is also a small plover found on the campa of Argentina which has become almost domesticated round the farms. It Is an
 excellent watch, and from being stead fly protected is found in numbers round
 the lonely homesteads, to which these
 noisy and nght-feeding birds are q
 source of security.
 The terms of equality on which these
 animal benefactors live with man have
 never induced others to presume on the | favor shown to them and to do like wise. They are perfectly aware when
 and where the protection is limited. Sir | Samuel Baker notes that blower, espec- | tally golden blower, are usually incura- 1 bly, wild wherever they are found. Yet
 durinb the last few years, since the | Middlesex county council and private | owners have protected them, peeWits | have become so tame on some of the
 market gardens at ChisWiek that they
 will feed within thirty yards of foot path or railway, and during the frost in February they came to be fed by the
 river bank, within ten yards of the high road. Jackdaws, being mischiev-
 ous birds, are wild and wary enough in
 preserved parks and on estates where
 they are shot. In Oxford an old resi-
 dent in Holywell street used to provide
 breakfast for the jackdaws regularly,
 cutting up trencher of slices of bread
 into cubes and throwing it out on to the
 grass below his window. The jack
 daws came to be fed as tamely as
 ducks, though they were by no means on these terms with the undergraduates of New College over the way.
 Probably the two most striking ex- amples of this distinguishing power possessed by birds, which are wonder fully quick judges of tentions, are the great lake sanctuary of Holkham, where thousands of fowl, which, when they disperse later, are as wild as the widest sit on the lake or it's banks as tamely as ducks in farmyard and the stable pond at Monymusk, where the wild ducks used to come regularly at twilight to be fed. But there are ln- stances of the tameneSs of mammals even more striking. Certain bears, in the Yellowstone Park come to the hotel | rubbish heaps to be fed with kitchen | waste, and allow ladies to photograph l them; and the squirrels of the New |! York Central Park are as familiar as | I ThnCn A. lures belong to the new era of what l Mrs. Brightwen has aptly called wild | nature won by kindness" or by ab- sence of unkindness. It offers a pecu- liarly pleasing prospect for our future town life and urban or half-urban parks, and may be absolutely counted | upon if the creatures are not shot or | Some correspondents of the Spectator have pointed this out recent ly as happening in the case of the Phoenix Park in Dublin, where the deer feed undisturbed between lines of sol- tliers firing blank-cartridges and the crowd gazing at them, and can hardly be driven off by the mounted men sent to make them move on." It is noticed hat this tameness actually increases as ne nul1DeF Ol ptISOllS lLeuucIllll6f park increaes-always providing that ,over and food, both of which are scan- y in the central London parks, but which abound at Richmond are left to hem.
 The wood pigeons in Hyde Park and xensington Gardens are far tanner than hose at Richmond, where they do not labitually live in crowd. In the same vay the Richmond deer are not so anne as those of Bushew or of small ,arks like that at Magdalen Cillege. l There is not the slightest reason to fear hat the admission of volunteers to , in Richmond Park would care away the wild creatures The { fight of still more people who do not urt them seems only to tend to in rease their confidence. Hence we have apply not to make any disagreeable hoice between training our volunteers I nd destroying the wild life in Rich i 1ond Park, and depliving our volun- I eers of their much-needed field-days s nd keeping up the wild life in Rich lond Park. We can perfectly well do ( UT duty by our volunteers and yet all ,w Richmond Park to remain the home 2 f the deer and the wild birds. The I -ild birds and the deer will not take J nree months to find out that the vol | nteers mean no sort of harm m-London | pectatOr.