Excerpt from The Desirability of the Protection and Encouragement of Birds in and Around ChathamMany people will recall that some five or six years ago conditions were such 'hat an overabundance of insect life was the result. Trees were infested in many cases to such an ex. Tent as to seriously menace their life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.