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out the year. In this reservation where formerly the birds were 

 slaughtered by the thousands by pot-hunters and sportsmen there is 

 now a safe refuge where the native birds may rear their young and where 

 the migrants from the North may safely spend the winter. 



In conclusion, let every intelligent person use his influence in all 

 possible ways to protect the birds. Public sentiment is fast tending 



FIG. 129. FIG. 130. 



FIG. 129. A feeding box pivoted on a pole so that the open side will be away 

 from the direction of the wind. (From McAtee, How to Attract Birds in Northwestern 

 United States.) 



FIG. 130. Food tray made from a barrel top and hoops fastened to top of 

 pole. (From McAtee, How to Attract Birds in Northwestern United States.) 



in this direction and there is yet time to prevent the almost total ex- 

 tinction of song birds that has taken place in some countries. By prop- 

 erly educating the coming generation it should be possible to produce 

 a public frame of mind that would consider the unnecessary slaughter 

 of birds as the real crime that it is. 



