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 In May, 1910. ilrs. Kussc-U Sage sent to the National Assoeiation of Audubon Societies a clieek for 

 $5,500 with which to inaugurate a plan for bird study, with special reference to the protection of the 

 robin, in the southern schools. So successful did the experiment prove that the system was extended into 

 all the other states in the Union and into the various provinces of Canada. Up to June 1, 1916, there 

 were 559,840 children enrolled under the standard bearing the inscription "Protect the Birds." The photo- 

 graph shows members of a Junior Audubon class at Fergus Falls, Minnesota 



Court, nil III DoubU'ddii, Paije d- Company 

 A snow}' egret that came home to die. — The most shameful blot on the history of America's treat- 

 ment of her wild birds is in connection with the white egrets, now entirely killed out in many states. The 

 "aigrettes" so often seen on the hats of the fashionable are the nuptial plumes of the birds. In obtain- 

 ing these, the hunters kill the adults, exposing hundreds of young birds to die of starvation — a method of 

 killing which history shows has never been followed by even the most savage race of men dealing with 

 their most hated enemies 



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