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hope to see anything to surpass, or, in some respects, to 

 equal, that upon which I now gazed. Years ago such sights 

 could be found all over Florida and other Southern States. 



YOUNG WHITE IBISES AND LOUISIANA HERONS 



(The three middle ones are Herons) 



This is the last pitiful remnant of hosts of innocent, exquisite 

 creatures slaughtered for a brutal, senseless, yes, criminal, 

 millinery folly, decreed by Parisian butterflies, which many 

 supposedly free Americans slavishly follow. Florida has awak- 



