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Nature-Study Agriculture 



Two 

 enemies 

 of birds 



Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



FiG. 187. A group of mounted specimens of the passenger pigeon. 

 No birds of this species, which was distinctively American, remain 

 alive. 



can ever again be seen. The best-known case of this 

 kind is that of the passenger pigeon. Within the 

 memory of living men, it is said, passenger pigeons 

 traveled in flocks that darkened the sun. With no 

 protection of the law, they were recklessly slaughtered 

 for the markets. The last specimen died in the Cin- 

 cinnati Zoological Garden in 1914, where it had been 

 kept for twenty-nine years. 



We can save the lives of very many birds by never 

 allowing a nest to be robbed, by disposing of unnecessary 



