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WE have already directed attention (NATURE, July 22, 1909) to the first edition of the useful little work by Martin Hiesemann on the practical preservation and protection of birds by the provision or creation of opportunities for their breeding, winter feeding, and by fighting the enemies of birds, and little remains to be said of the second edition except that it has been revised and enlarged in many essential points. This excellent little book was written for Germany, where the birds' natural conditions of life differ somewhat from those prevailing in this country. For instance, our winters are less severe, and so less systematic feeding at that season may be necessary; our country is, generally speaking, less open and more wooded (hedgerows, gardens, and ornamental grounds and plantations bein taken as woodlands in this connection), so that the provision of special breeding plantations may not be desirable here. Our birds of prey have been closely killed down, and there seems to be no way (permitted by law) of dealing with the domestic cat, the birds' worst enemy in this country.
How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds.
By M. Hiesemann. Translated by Emma S. Buchheim. With an introduction by Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford. Second edition, with many revisions. Pp. 101. (London: Witherby and Co., 1911.) Price 1s. 6d. net.
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How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds . Nature 89, 190 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089190a0
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