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Show PROTECTOR OF AMERICAN BIRDS I Dr. William T. Hornaday, -director of the New York Zoological park, appeared ap-peared in Washington a few days ago before the Benate 'committee to ask the congress of the United States to stop the activities of the American people In the extermination of 'birds for millinery purposes. On the day of his return to this city he told the writer that fully 100 species spe-cies of the most beautiful and curious birds of the world are now 'being exterminated ex-terminated to meet the demands for plumes, feathers and skins to use on women's hats. He called attention to Buch salient facts as these: The number of wild birds annually consumed by the feather trade is so enormous as to challenge the imagination. imagi-nation. The whole world is under tribute. No species is spared for sentimental i ' reasons. And the most -beautiful and most curious species are the ones in the greatest danger of extermination. For instance, the exquisite birds of paradise are being exterminated literally liter-ally before our eyes, and the extermination of a species is a crime. The greater and lesser birds iof paradise and the Jobi bird of paradise are now nearly extinct. |