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tection. But for the present the Americans are deter- 

 mined that no such waste of animal life by unrestricted 

 shooting shall recur as that which destroyed the bison, 

 and has reduced to a few individuals the largest flocks 

 of any species of bird ever seen in one place, the once 

 innumerable colonies of passenger-pigeons. 



