| Show bird breeding place menaced most remarkable refuge in the world in danger from hunters MANY MAHY RARE SPECIES THESE THEE bird la Is under control of 1 the department of agriculture P protecting electing the birds there them Is IB precarious business washington abid oti elang ang out of in tile the patent ocean aw ml lulles beyond honolulu la Is a group of tittle lit a islands island the largest not at more a tit alinn two fu 0 square miles ill in or area and ad several of them barely eting above th the waves naves at high title tide yet on n those hose island islands inlands are many hundreds bundre ui ot of of in birds c ad among thom the are am at least cast alx alx lx PC clas I 1 j 3 e I 1 i 1 e TA J wings paled paid in old guana cash shed bald absan 1 islands avul Ev evidence ul of the extent a 0 which P poachers ach have killed these birds bird the tha wings stored here were evidently intended for fee shipping bit never had be been cured cared not it I 1 found it anywhere else in the world lu in 1911 one of tb those species was wag eel represented I 1 by y I 1 six birds bird nil 11 that ame left ift as the sole means of perpetuating tile the species and they concentrated on u single d gla little island intend accra on oae wan man slight might kill the them all 11 in I 1 one minute 8 shooting 11 citing that species the lacbain teal has fortunately increased until there them fire are hy by call estimate ate thirty fie individuals united for the united states department ol of agriculture for ar a few fare years haa ban co con trolled strolled the islands as a bird reserve reserva tion lb the Hilo hawaiian islands tit reservation it Is called but P protecting teching the birds there la Is a precarious business the Panl possibility lI has existed aldays that one ile or move more of th the rare species might be lip wiped out in a dav das albatross dt destroyers yet arrested B by y way of allu illustration t ration this one lyet d day y in fir 1909 the cre crew of th lie cutter tit tin if als found an old she it absolutely bs into rallied full of albatross wings A search ach rev revealed ild alie tit fact that 23 plume plains hunt ers eri had ad landed on in labsan arx island and ad had bad killed at leat least birds bird the itte an were a captured take to honolulu and formally arrested ted since S aad that time there I 1 is not at known inon to have it ble been say any repetition of such each its depredations I 1 hut but it 1 Is ala always inma imminent t just now many fi fishermen harmen largely farrely nations is of countries other than tile the united sitter are extending their op orations train from honolulu out act to the re gion of the bird reservation era that landings on t the he islands are constantly in ammi nert dent and a sudi birins ta A would be a to one are of the const remarkable b bird it beat ding places JD a the world I 1 ahe he burns bureau of biological sol surey Y having direct charge of the reservation la 8 calling nitration attention to the tact fact that die inching curbing the birds on it lx lavan alx or say any a of the tar smaller wand islands 1 la forbidden and ad announcing that the reservation will be protected by whatever r means an arc am nece shari for far the blood benefit t of all the peoples people of the world lid lachin the fulgent of the group Is one of the most westerly of the Us ha wailan island it has an area of about two equals miles ile and ad within athi it COD forming falling generally Kene rally to the coast line Is a alsa garec I lagoon amm this friend bland Is oni one of the most popa populous ions bird breeding places on all the globe lit literally 1 1 y hundreds of ru thousands of birds resorting e 0 0 there to lay their eggs egg every year specialists of t the biological survey ba S a ty call ut attention to th the tact that the dantsi ostensible b a of fishermen e do dues not at mean a that me men nav not at b be the cry destructive to birds the great auk auh they recall wn vu exterminated ty by the rarest career of all the species pact t that exist only in the lasan ferone Is I 1 A duck like bird excellent for food and ad therefore most likely to be hot by rara birds rd on island the S par t cliot ost there and ad nohe here eke ee are 1 the tal list the ile aral little lay dayian r rail I 1 the be lason nia achim linday y later eater the lay fanch the amer bird th pi a mail warbler bley the Hawn linn teni and the lafear alboma other ape am cies a that nest principally an 00 dayml and island and ad would be tn in danger of if CK rom termination mm if kobsted raol mob eted sted thea there anre the red led tailed tropic birj binl the black footed ilba lb atress the gray backed k ed tern ond and the sooty tern tell the number of bu individuals dividen Is of the e ex cl uffe species tn in 1911 were estimated tn tit be si SN of the lovean teal perhaps 1 of the miller 1110 bird of th the honey better eater 2 2000 of the rail il 2 2700 ot of th the finch and WO of the alb albatross alba true indications are that while the teal be has increased mc cesel the other species Is have probably decreased the islands comp ing the deberra re ell ti tiomi an are a llon island omen ocean I 1 or cure care island 1 pearl and ad her hermes reef aslam ski or pell island mary reef dowsett dowett reef gardiner island aland two brothers reef I 1 rench frigate shall rhoal island F arost st she shoal and ad bird island |
