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Show Royal Mounted Police to Study Wild Birds Quebec. Que. Fabled In fiction and fact as friends of the Indian, ' protectors of frontiersmen and ,-e-lentless foe of the criminal, Canada's Can-ada's Royal Mounted police again are laying saddle and bridle aside to serve their government as naturalists nat-uralists and scientific explorers. A detail of the famous scarlet-coated scarlet-coated troopers have left Quebec city aboard a steamer carrying officers offi-cers of the department of the Interior In-terior on an ocean tour of several months which has for Its objective an Intensive study of the rare wild bird life on the north shore of the St Lawrence river and gulf as far as Blanc Sablon, where Labrador adjoins eastern Quebec at the west end of the Strait of Belie Isle. Frequent stops are to be made for Inland journeys to the haunts of the feathered inhabitants of Quebec's Que-bec's rugged and picturesque coastal areas. Year-round patrols of the "Mount-les" "Mount-les" have been established for some time In the provinces of Quebec to guard Quebec's many hunting preserves. pre-serves. It is the duty of these patrols pa-trols to prevent the slaughter of Quebec's bird life, which is now achieving international fame, especially espe-cially in the Gaspe peninsula, where at Perce Rock and Bonaventure Island Is-land more than 200.000 rare wild birds, Including gannets, murres relatives of the now extinct flightless flight-less great auks and many others form what is said to be the most densely Inhabited bird sanctuary In the world. |