Show Destruction of the Song Birds wealth of bird music in The former here in Connecticut can yd ami grove J i well he understood by those who since the destructive war jLvp frown up f ireofl birds began It is a wonder inLet in-Let not that so few but that any are I Hi uhen we consider the variety of jps in which disaster overtakes our birds Not to mention the many sang Ivjsands that are destroyed in the egg I rncctby marauding boys and speci men collectors the further destruction of the migrating birds by dashing their I J i ws out against the lanterns of an end of lighthouses along the coast es Ktring for their journey is mostly performed at rhtis far larger than is generally sup 0 ei and would seem to be enough to emate them If we add to this the rthles3 wholesale slaughter of some pieslike the bobolink for example lv l gunners along the Delaware nd rivers further south who devotee be birds to stews and pies there need be further looking for the cause of the irked diminution of this most rollick and once very abundant songster of j May and June grassfields Yet the Production of the mowing machine li the earlier grass cutting that has ac panied it supplies additional ex Nation of a part of the general disap > TJnc of the bobolink He is not rnJ as a songster elsewhere than in acie charming fields of our northland in L perfect months of May and June II 1 Lb peculiar rollicking tinkling uccenng melody was one of the charms 1 SUCh scenes at that happiest time in I L car Perhaps his extermination AKrslupped but tbio whop ln flora I flo-ra oi all sorts of song birds in dudin our finest singer the brown 1 1rier and all just to supply feathered I laments for womens hats is a little too i J 1 If the women would be content now unfor j elf European sparrow icv naturalized in this country no I would offer a word of opposition iLtyrdTiines |