This is the last pitiful remnant of hosts of innocent, exquisite 
creatures slaughtered for a brutal, senseless, yes, criminal, 
millinery folly, decreed by Parisian butterflies, which many 
supposedly free Americans slavishly follow. Florida has awak- 
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hope to see anything to surpass, or, in some respects, to 
equal, that upon which I now gazed. Years ago such sights 
could be found all over Florida and other Southern States. 
YOUNG WHITE IBISES AND LOUISIANA HERONS 
(The three middle ones are Herons) 
