What is wanted to keep the maggots out?
Hardly anything: to slip each bird into a paper sheath.

If this precaution were taken at the start, before the Flies arrive, any game would be safe and could be left indefinitely to attain the degree of ripeness required by the epicure's palate.
Stuffed with olives and myrtleberries, the Corsican Blackbirds are exquisite eating.

We sometimes receive them at Orange, layers of them, packed in baskets through which the air circulates freely and each contained in a paper wrapper.

They are in a state of perfect preservation, complying with the most exacting demands of the kitchen.
I congratulate the nameless shipper who conceived the bright idea of clothing his Blackbirds in paper.

Will his example find imitators?
I doubt it.
There is, of course, a serious objection to this method of preservation.