ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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calamity of tliis sort miglit easily result in total 

 extermination. Even now. there can be no doubt 

 that the Holboell Grebe has experienced a severe 

 check, from which it may be some time in re- 

 covering-. In the Auk for April, 191'2. John H. 

 Sage records that "an unusual flight of Coli/m- 

 bus holbnelU was noticed here during the month 

 of February, 1912." At least ten helpless birds 

 are known to have been picked up, most of them 

 unable to rise from the ice which covered the 

 Connecticut River. The effects of the severe 

 winter, then, were evidently widespread, and one 

 tan readily believe that the ranks of a species 

 even so widely distributed as Colymbus holboelli, 

 have been verv materially reduced, L. S. C. 



Ducks need no protection. Inasunich as the 

 natives are unable to shoot on the wing, but few 

 ducks are killed ; and the snipe are migratory 

 and do not nest here." 



AX AMERICAN BIRD PROTECTOR 

 IN SAMOA 



Exiract from a letter zcritten bi/ Masox 

 Mitchell, American Consul at Apia 



"For the past year or more I have been try- 

 ing to induce the German Governor of Samoa. 

 Dr. Schultz, to issue laws to protect the birds 

 of these islands. With the exception of the 

 Tooth-Billed pigeon, no protection has been 

 given to any bird. In consequence of this, the 

 Lupi ( Lavender-Xeck Fruit-Pigeon), has de- 

 creased over fifty per cent, in the last ten years. 

 Without protection, five years hence, they will 

 be as scarce as the Manumea (Tooth-Billed 

 Pigeon), especially if they are not protected in 

 the breeding season. Formerly they were the 

 most numerous of the six varieties of pigeons 

 found on these islands. They are extensively 

 shot for food, and are sold by the natives at 

 twenty-five cents each. 



"Xo one, either wliite or native, knew wlien 

 or where the Lupi nested ; and some averred they 

 migrated to other islands to breed. This I have 

 found to be untrue, for they nest in these islands, 

 high ap in the forest trees, in the parasitic ))lant 

 wliieh grows in tree-forks, called by the Samoans 

 the laumapajia. or in English the bird's nest 

 ])lant (Asjileniiim nidus). They hatch in Oc- 

 tober. I have seen both their nests and young 

 birds. For this interesting bird I have advised 

 a close season from August first to December. 



"The Governor informs me the common coun- 

 cil will take the matter up, and be guided by 

 my advice. If they fail to do so, it will be 

 another case like that of the passenger pigeons 

 in America. 



"I have secured protection for all the pereli- 

 ing birds, for all time, in addition to all birds 

 outside of the two varieties of fruit pigeons, the 

 aquatic birds, and members of the snipe family. 



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