SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. row 
toward their guests as is the furnishing of clean table linen. If 
game is procurable for money, game will appear on hundreds of 
bills of fare, daily, until forbidden by law—and very often for 
long after. To the manager of a banquet, or a bill of fare in a 
good hotel, the temptation to crown the list with a regulation 
dish of game is irresistible ; and, therefore, game must be procured. 
If the law stands in the way, the cold-storage men must have it 
amended. Meanwhile, give the bird another name than its own, 
serve it up, and take the chances of prosecution. If our sportsmen 
make too much disturbance over the quantity of game killed for 
the New York market, satisfy their clamor by inventing the pleas- 
ing fiction that all game sold in New York out of season has been 
killed 500 miles away. Ina word, do whatever is necessary to 
procure the game. ‘Trap it, shoot it,—on the wing, on the 
ground, or even on the nest if necessary,—but ge¢ z¢, so long as a 
bird remains. 
Beyond question, unless the present rage for ‘‘ game-on-the-bill- 
of-fare’’ subsides very materially, it is reasonably certain that all 
our game birds—and some of our game quadrupeds also—will cease 
to exist outside of fenced preserves. And when the birds grow 
still more scarce, and finally vanish altogether, does any one doubt 
that our thrushes, and robins, meadow-larks, black-birds and scores 
of others will be called upon to take their place on the bill of fare ? 
True, they may be christened anew—like the ‘‘ electric seal’’ 
and the ‘‘Alaskan sable ’’ amongst fur-bearing mammals ; but the 
song-birds will be killed, nevertheless. 
DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS FOR MILLINERY PURPOSES.—One of 
the strangest anomalies of modern civilization, is the spectacle of 
modern woman—the refined and the tender-hearted, the merciful 
and compassionate—suddenly transformed into a creature heed- 
lessly destructive of bird life, and in practice as bloodthirsty as 
the most sanguinary birds of prey. 
Not all American women, however, submit to the edict of 
Paris regarding the wearing of birds ; but enough have done so, 
and now do, that whole states have been swept clean of all the 
species of birds that the Herodias of France decree shall be worn. 
This subject is by no means new. ‘The statistics of the slaughter 
of the feathered innocents have been published by the Audubon 
Societies many times; but the slaughter continues. After having 
