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and carefully made skin, as well as complete data. This bird was taken at 

 Lake Loehe, Polk Co., Fla., Oct. 7th, 1892. 



The plate does not give the bright shade of color to the frontal band 

 but admirably shows the boundaries of the orange-crimson tint. 



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Japs Not Responsible for the Bird Slaughter on Layson 



MUCH has been published and universal indignation expressed concern- 

 ing the destruction of Albatross on Layson Island. Reports state 

 that a Japanese expedition landed on the Island and killed several hundred 

 thousand birds for the down and plumage : — that the birds were mostly 

 taken alive and starved to death in pits in order to reduce the oil or fat in 

 their skins. All of this is true with one exception. 



It was not a Japanese expedition that destroyed the birds, but a former 

 keeper or warden of the Island is said on reliable authority to have headed 

 the expedition, and the' Japs who did the work were in his employ. It is 

 gratifying to know, however, that the expedition was not profitable to its 

 promoter, and my friend, Mr. G. Willett of the Biological Survey, had the 

 satisfaction of confiscating and burning all the many tons of down and 

 feathers that were collected. 



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