BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



torn from it while it is still living, should be 

 told in every millinery store, and to every 

 woman who wears them, told over and over 

 again until, instead of the beautiful plume in 

 her hat, she sees only the wounded bird. Then, 

 perhaps, the hunter will have no market for the 

 produce of his murder. But until that time 

 only the most carefully guarded laws will pro- 

 tect the birds of beautiful plumage. 



How much such laws need to be carried into 

 effect is shown by the history of bright plum- 

 aged birds that have been almost wiped out of 

 existence. The Great White Heron and the 

 Egret, once so numerous, have become very 

 rare. The Trumpeter Swan and the Whoop- 

 ing Crane are almost gone. Even our tiny, 

 bright colored songsters sometimes fall a prey 

 to the plume hunter. 



But it is not only millinery purposes that are 

 causing the destruction of birds. Side by side 

 with the loss of bright plumaged birds comes 

 the loss, in some cases the extermination, of 

 those that come under the head of game birds. 

 Hunters who cannot be called sportsmen are 

 responsible for the extinction of valuable birds 

 and the decrease of others to such an alarming 

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