It is now illegal'to sell sixty-seven different types of British birds, including blackbirds, cuckoos, jackdaws, larks, magpies, ravens, robins, sparrows, starlings, swallows,'and (brushes, save in cases when birds have been born in captivity. From property left more than 150 years ago to help children of Huhvoll, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, to start in life, the income has risen from £6O to £5,000 a year. Out of this alms-houses and village halls have been built, endowments have been made, and grants to twenty children a year, arc-paid-
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Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 14
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