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Bird - Lore 



Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana, 

 but as for getting any assistance from 

 Florida — No. 



The ofi'ice of State Game-Warden was 

 established in Florida by law in 1913, but 

 the warden was unwise enough to prose- 

 cute some persons for violations of the 

 law, and these and their friends at once 

 went for his political life. The result was 

 that when the legislature of 1915 assembled 

 it destroyed the office. No protests were 

 made, as far as I am aware, while the bill 

 was pending, e.xcept from the Florida 

 Audubon Society, and no one went to the 

 capital city to argue the cause of the birds 

 except one Florida attorney, who was 



hired by the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies for that purpose. 



The more striking forms of Florida's 

 bird-Hfe are all but swept away, her 

 magnificent pine-forests have been utterly 

 destroyed for lumber and turpentine, and 

 now the lakes are being cleared of fish 

 by a highly efficient and diabolical form 

 of trap. 



When will the really intelligent people 

 of Florida awake to the desirability of 

 preserving what nature has given it? 

 From present indications there is not the 

 slightest prospect of their doing so while 

 one plumage-bird, pine-forest, or fish is 

 left in the state. 



THE EGRET SITUATION IN SOUTH FLORIDA 



By DR. HERBERT R. MILLS 



One of the accompanying photographs 

 shows the e.xhibit recently displayed by 

 the Tampa Audubon Society in the show- 



window of one of Tampa's leading mil- 

 liners. This exhibit consists of the rem- 

 nants of about fifty Egrets brought in 



WINGS AND BONES OF WHITE IBIS KILLED WANTONLY BY MEN 

 STYLING THEMSELVES "SPORTSMEN." 



