THE BIRD STUDY BOOK 



make an interesting coat for his wife. The birds 

 killed were all caring for their young in the nests at 

 the time he and his hirelings shot them. 



There was a few years ago, in a Georgia city, an at- 

 torney who accepted the aigrette "scalps" of twenty- 

 seven Egrets from a client who was unable to pay 

 cash for a small service rendered. He told me he had 

 much pleasure in distributing these among his lady 

 friends. Another man went about the neighbour- 

 hood hunting male Baltimore Orioles until he had 

 shot twelve, as he wanted his sisters to have six each 

 for their Sunday hats. The Roseate Spoonbill of the 

 Southern States was never extensively killed for the 

 millinery trade, and yet to-day it is rapidly approach- 

 ing extinction. The feathers begin to fade in a short 

 time and for this reason have little commercial value, 

 but the amateur Northern tourist feather hunter has 

 not known this, or disregarded the fact, and has been 

 the cause of the depletion of the species in the United 

 States. Almost every one could cite instances 

 similar to the above, for there are many people in the 

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