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A PLEA FOB THE BIEDS. 



destruction of birds for their feathers, with which to ornament ladies' 

 hats and other parts of their apparel. While, from a humane point 



Golden-crested Wren. 



Fire-crested Wren. 



Fig. 1530.— Warblers. 

 Feed on tree-creepers and their eggs. 



of view, this practice cannot be too strongly condemned, there h 

 another aspect in which it appeals to the practical sense of every, 



Fig. 1531.— African Beefeater. 

 Lights upon the backs of cattle and eats the larva of the bat-flies burrowing beneath the hide. 



farmer. The very birds which are so sought after by the votaries 



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