| Show BIRD EIRD protection game 60 lea la 14 iu at here the society for the prole pratt lion of birds has a tool look oi at the barlous atu lou bird birds which have lecomb extinct in england from which it ni AP pear pears that the englese en elese eless daughter Q rare species ii Is no modern habit as san 1 I an exchange As A long ago as 1678 bli fb thomais browne wrote of game ran bird birds at tint time that they are abo of by fowler erx not for or th lr ir meat bu but t oat oi the handsomeness 0 ot f the mama evo since that date and probably before it the same wholesale whole eala destruction bai been going on with the result that thi species ot at bradsh birdp which oti art mentioned in some of the monumenta monuments enta ork upon the subject are now ro re deuced to the author of the book in commenting on this fact says it li b more regrettable in thit that the hand zaniest species are the first doomed and it the continues we in no long time b bi left v ith only th dullest plumaged varieties varlet les perhaps the tle new zealander when he be arrived upon our shores will be greeted by the sparrow he ile lament laments tha I 1 there Is no room in these smal islands for the yellowstone park when rare rate animal animals such as an the bleon mal find refuge from the greed or tolly jolly a mankind and attributes the real dir dif faculty to the collector who as specie special grow rare offers higher and mind highel prices for specimens jo lo put in his cabi net A similar senseless Is going a on in this country and awl u nr lesi lea the protection we are thus late in thi day trying to afford the buffalo tx lit given to our feathered tribes the ma aerial tor for a volume on arist loet america americas birds will soon be forthcoming |
