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collectors and scientific men are as much to blame 

 in decimating a species as the milliner and his 

 fashionable lady patrons. Birds, many of them 

 local and scarce to a high degree, are being 

 indiscriminately collected in the name of science. 

 Naturalists, of all people, should ever seek to 

 protect, never heedlessly to destroy. 



We will now proceed to notice in detail not only 

 lost and vanishing British birds, but some of the 

 principal exotic species already extinct or threatened 

 with extermination. 



