MAGPIES AND PHEASANTS.
"Safety" recounts recent experience in and near Central Park when a magpie on two separate occasions- swooped down repeatedly close to his head as if attempting to attack him. The correspondent suggests that a similar experience would have been alarming to a young girl or a mother with a baby and people should be warned of the necessity of keeping a watch on these birds when they are flying about. Referring to a letter signed Frank Willis and published on August 20, "Friend of Magpies" writes in defence of the magpie and in opposition to those who attack it as a killer of pheasants. He.'says that acclimatisation societies apparently desire to protect the pheasant "for a game of cruel sport and not for general table use." Instead of reserving all pheasants for sport, anyone who desires should be allowed to rear pheasants as food and to sell them as food. Why should the taste of pheasant be reserved for those who shoot? Some time ago, the correspondent states, pheasants were reared and sold for table use by Mr. Henry .Tervis, of Moss Vale, New South Wale*. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 8
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189MAGPIES AND PHEASANTS. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 8
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