PROTECTING EAGLES.
• The Swiss Federal Government has • decided to protect the few remaining . ! eagles left in the Alps. It-seems that thero are only four nesting-places cf the eagio still known to exist in tho Alps, and watchers have been told off to guard over them and to repay tho *. ' peasants in the, valleys which they , ! haunt any damage they do. The won. ,;. ; has already been taken in hand. -Last ■if. \ - year the eagles made off with fourteen '-■■ Jambs, four kids, and-one cat, which '*» w*> r <- duly paid for. .They cost the 1 Government in this Way 113 francs: In the valley of Oberiberg tho peasants !■ have tried the experiment of putting scarlet collars round the necks of the f -. newly-born lambs in prder to frighten the ©agio-. Tho Government is apparently willing to provide the collars, and tho experiment has beon 6_cces_- : fill. But the eagles must live on somes' thing,* and thoy will no doubt in time . learn that tho collars are not so alarm- .■ lag after all.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14276, 12 February 1912, Page 7
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