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c. few square miles in two or three isolated localities. The ranks of the few survivors are 

 being rapidly thinned, for, in Florida, their enemies are legion; bird catchers trap them by 

 hundreds for the northern market, sportsmen shoot them for food, planters kill them be- 

 cause they eat their fruit, and tourists slaughter them simply because they present a fa- 

 vorable mark. Thus a species, the history of which is still incomplete, for we know noth- 

 ing definite of the breeding habits of the Parokeet or of its younger stages, is being surely 

 exterminated, yet ornithologists and others who would prevent this calamity, can but look 

 upon the work of destruction, powerless, under the present state of affairs, to stay the ruth- 

 less hand of the destroyer. 



