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DEATH SENTENCE BY BIRD TRIBUNAL A case of bird tribunal is reported in the Kiig!i-li Aagler News as barbae occurred in Hie Ciirisini:is holiday-. A crowd of rooks sat in judgment on a member of the body, in a circle in a field. The evident culprit sto.nl dejectedly li-tening to t lie :ic-I natal ion-, and proofs, some no doubt doing the part of barristers, the majority listening to the argu-i incuts f,,r the prosecution. lie was undoubtedly i brought in guilty, for the crowd forthwith set upon 1 1 1 iii and I.Miehed him. leaving the carcass of the i.tini mi the field. Bishop Stanley, in his "Familiar lli-lory of British Birds," gives a curiously analagoiis ease: and also of a court martial on a stork, in this case a culprit stork being executed.
