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I HAVE just received a letter from a man who has been very busy amongst the kingfishers that visit his grounds within ten miles of the Bank of England. I enclose the original letter, and now quote therefrom:—“I have caught sixteen quite lately [apparently since the middle of August]. Six went to—alive; the others I have skinned. Would you make me an offer for nine?” Since receiving this letter I have been given three carcases, and understand that these birds were supplied alive to a dealer by my correspondent; this brings the total up to nineteen birds, at least, removed from the bird-population of the London district by one man. A disagreeable fact is that all appear to have been killed not illegally.
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STUBBS, F. The Destruction of Kingfishers near London. Nature 87, 347 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087347b0
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