text:  Of the stately bustard once the ornament of all our downs scarce a solitary straggler now remains--the crane as well as the stork which once abounded in the fen districts has totally disappeared; and though the success which has attended the attempts to re-introduce the capercailzie in Scotland has restored to us one of our lost species it is much to be feared that unless Mr Waterton's example in converting his park into a sanctuary be followed by other country gentlemen of ornithological tastes the raven the crow and the larger species of hawks in whose preservation no one is interested and which are already becoming _rarae aves_ in the agricultural districts will eventually disappear from the British Fauna