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the snow lies so deep on the ranges that the animals cannot 

 forage for theinselves ; and llic hulTalo, which fonncrly ap- 

 peared to be doomed, liave probably been saved, altliongh 

 they are today more like domestic cattle, retaining little of 

 the picturesque cliaracter of their foi-i)cai-s. which ranged in 

 such magnificence over our wcslein domain, liut the ante- 

 lope at present appears to be doomed. Even with the most 

 careful protection the young often fall victims to the wily 



An Egret Culuny in 8outh Cakglixa 



The aigrette which formerly adorned women's bonnets so e.\timsiv( ly 

 was obtained from tiiis Vdni, whicli was nearly exterminatcil as a result. 

 Photograph of a group in tlift American Museum of Natural History in 

 New York. 



Couitisy uj the Miisium. 



wolf and coyote, and the destruction which man began, Na- 

 ture seems determined to finish. 



Until comparatively recent times the swamps of our South 

 Atlantic and Gulf Coast were the home of countless thou- 

 sands of snowy herons, bearers of the beautiful "aigretti', " 

 which woman in innocent l)ai'l)arity was at one time pi-oud 

 to wear. The story of the aigictte ti-ade with all its wanton 

 cruelty, has been told so often as to need no rejietition here, 

 but a word nuiy be said regarding its sn|)])i(ssion. .\boli- 



