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WHITE PELICANS AND CORMORANTS PROTECTED AT KLAMAIH LAKE 



with no alarm, some of the assembly not 

 more than twenty or thirty feet away. A 

 few of the old birds were sitting on eggs, 

 but most of them had young, some newly 

 hatched and some half-grown. For many 

 years the White Pelican disappeared 

 rapidly. Many hunters shot these birds 

 wantonly, and others killed them for 



their quills, which at one time were 

 fashionable, and in this way thousands of 

 the big birds paid penalty to the mil- 

 liners' trade. They would have been 

 exterminated here in the Klamath country, 

 perhaps, had it not been for Audubon and 

 Government protection. 



The colonies of California Gulls that 



A WHITE PELICAN TAKING FLIGHT 



