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Show ALSACE STORKS ON DECREASE Careful supervision of Bird Chaws HH They Are Rapidly Dying Out flfl Various Reasons Given. JH Every year tho number of tork la IH be seen In Alsace become Iras. tb HH London Dally (Holm states. Of the four nests perched on the bis elrfm- HH ueys of thn old roofs of Stnmburi-. HH only ono has been occupied Oils yrar. HH In many of the villages tha great HH migrators havo censed for a lone time? HH to rollevo tho landscape, and It sremt HJ only n question of tlmo vtieti Hii HH stork In Alsnco will bo a memory. HH Various aro tho causes nsnfgtmt fnr HH this desertion thn dralnajo of Uir HH mnrshcH, tho multiplication of teto- H Phono nnd telegraph wlren and :hc HH smoke from factory chlmneya. HH In Germany for tho better study ol H storks there tins been created a sort of HH service In connection with the educa- HH Hon department which tendi to set up HH nn "ctnt civil" for ench bird. or. fa IB other words, to register them aflerthn HH manner which obtains for citterns In HH Franco. HH Knell bird is captured when? posnl- H bio and a metallic disk nfrtxrrt to its HH leg, nnd Herman oincinlH, wbrrrre HH tho birds aro believed to migrate HI hnve Instruction to send tn tbo4rparr- HI ment nny Information they can Knitter HI concerning storks which nro German HI subjects. (Possibly this labeling may Hfl hnvo something to do with the srr- HH city.) Ily this system or rcgJaimtlna HI tho authorities hnve learned mom- HH thing of tho migratory hablta of (bit HH bird; for Instance, one wns found dn-i HI nt the Capo of Good Hope whose prac HH of origin was eastern Prussia. HH A point of interest relative tn tne HH scarcity of the stork linn been ttronxM under tho uotlco of thn Herman as- H tliorltles by a doctor nt Port Kllaa- H belli, who suggests thn! the? have HH been poisoned through en tins trraae- HH hoppers or locusts which lime betra HH killed by nrsenlc, A corrospoaiewt. HH however, of nn Alaacc-l,orrntfie Joor- HH ual hints Hint the cause In to be fmwa HH nearer nt home. |