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Show Birds Sacrificed to Fashion. Tho savageries of fashion wero Illustrated Il-lustrated afresh by the visit of n bird lover to it colony of egrets nfter havoc had boon wrought by a party of plumo hunter?. Tho bird lover nindo his visit during tho height of tho breeding season. On his arrival nt tho colony ho found tho painful evidences of tho recent raid In some 50 carcasses of adult birds floating In tho water. These 50 birds had been ruthlessly shot while brooding their oung. The young wero left remorselessly to dio n lingering death from hunger. Many had already succumbed. Others from time to tlmo fell from tho nests to share tho snmo fate, while others again died from exhaustion as they sat in tho nests. Perhaps the most pitiable piti-able sight of all was to watch those which still had sufficient strength to move and cry attempting vainly to attract at-tract the attention of old birds flying heedlessly by with food in their beaks. |