Show ar tt 91 WILD Q CREATURES DIE OUT dwindling of species something beyond our control attempts at the th reintroduction of any wild creature that hns has become extinct very seldom meet with success aa we are afraid says london country lite life that the efforts made by the late lord allford Ll lford ford lord calsing bam and others to reintroduce the great buntard into suffolk have met with the usual fate sixteen birds were turned loose in 1900 and now only one pair remain and unfortunately tuna tely their domestic arrangements arrange menta succeeded as badly this year as they did ild last the ho eggs laid being infertile it li ii borth dortht of note the nests season aid and last season were both placed in tho the field where the last grent bustard nested sixty years ago before the bird disappeared from sut folk tho the hiti history tory of tho the experiment goes coca far to show that tho the dwindling of a species Is generally duo due to causes over which man has no con artl there are cases such as that of the bittern where ono one can under cistand stand that extinction has been due to such causes as the drainage of the moss and alie but there are others for which no explanation Is given for wor example why should the kite once the commonest comm oneat of london birds now ba esteemed a rare visitor or why should tho the red legged chough havo almost vanished while the jack idaa and the rook are oven even as the aoa sea leand for multitude mulU ludo |