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Show BJRD IS WORTH PRESERVING Writer Deplores the Threatened Ex. tlnctlon of the Beautiful and Useful Upland Plover. The upland plover, one of the mot henellclal birds of nil the winged host that once abounded In North America,, tins been hunted and shot lo the vcrgn of extermination, says Dumb Animals. With the panning of the passenger pigeons, which even now so many friends of all birds tlnd It hnrd to be-Move be-Move und of which n great many nr not convinced, the plovers were marked for wholesale destruction. They wero candidates for oblivion along with more than a score of other useful and beautiful species thnt could be 111 spared from our vast and vnluublc ns-tlve ns-tlve fauna. Thcro Is a ray of hope thnt thess birds may not he pursued to completn annihilation. The federal law for tba protection of migratory birds makes It possible for the plover species to re-hubllltato re-hubllltato Itself, provided the closed season be fixed to continue throughout thu yenr. The upland plover Is a ml-gratory ml-gratory bird and an Insectivorous bird. Its food consists of 07 per rent of anl-nml anl-nml forms which are chiefly tho worst enemies to agriculture. The federal law fixes a closed season on mlgru-tory mlgru-tory Insectivorous birds to continue throughout tha year with the exception of tho bobolink or rlccblrd, but under the law the plover Is classed as a ml-gratory ml-gratory gnme bird and so Its fate Is precarious. Theso birds should uot b shot. |