THE SNOWY EGRET. l8l 



At nesting time these birds are so in love with 

 each other and with their babies that they are stupid 

 in watching against danger ; and this is a time when 

 some man, who has become an expert gunner, takes 



Fig. 42. — Snowy Egret. 



an order for supplying a hundred or a thousand 

 aigrettes to a millinery house. He knows where in 

 Florida, Mississippi, or Texas marshes he may expect 

 to find a great colony of the birds he wants. So 

 noisy are they he has no difficulty in locating them. 

 You can imagine the rest of the story. It is as if 



