Society, L: Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Litera

Excerpt from Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (Manchester Memoirs), 1921-22, Vol. 66

The increase beyond the normal proportions of any Species of bird, due to protection which has not taken into considera tion consequences, may be a tragedy. It may, probably will, affect our life interests; it certainly will have in¿uence upon the relative numbers of other forms. Need I mention as problems of the day the extraordinary increase Since 1880 of the black-headed gull and the starling, two Species wholly valuable in their proper proportions, but threatening other forms, actively or passively, now that they. Have become so numerous.

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