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in a single season. Another method of extermination is egging; 

 this is quite as fatal as killing the birds. There are yet small 

 colonies of sea-birds which will serve as a nucleus, and may, by 

 the greatest care and watchfulness, repopulate our country with 

 these birds. If this desirable result is to be achieved, action must 

 be taken at once by the public ; it will not do to neglect the matter 

 another season, or our children will say of us what we now say of 

 our fathers regarding the buffalo and wild pigeon: "When you 

 had the opportunity to save the sea-birds you did not do it, and 

 we are deprived of a part of our heritage." The sea-birds can only 

 be saved by placing at each colony, during the breeding season, 

 an energetic, faithful and fearless warden, who will stand guard 

 during the three months when the birds are brooding their eggs. 

 The part the public can take in this great economic and esthetic 

 movement is to supply the necessarv funds. The National Asso- 

 ciation of Audubon Societies, an incorporated body, will do the 

 administrative work. 



During the present breeding season this Association has forty 

 such wardens employed, but this number should be increased to at 

 least three hundred men, in order to fully guard all of the rem- 

 nants of colonies that once existed. The public are urged to join 

 the National Association, the membership fee being five dollars 

 a year, all of which sum is used in bird-protection work, as the 

 executive officers of the Society contribute their services without 

 compensation. 



The seashore without the sea-birds would be like a garden 

 without flowers or a landscape without trees. Unless active 

 measures are taken now to prevent this disaster, it will surely 

 come ; then, reader, it will be too late to do more than grieve. 

 This is not a duty you can delegate to your neighbor ; it belongs 

 to you. Will you help save the sea-birds, or will you see them 

 vanish? To your descendants you are responsible. 



