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Conservation Reader 



Finley b' Boltlman 

 A least sandpiper or snipe, one of the shore birds. 



The shore birds form a group of very great value. They 

 include those long-legged birds with slender bills which are 

 found usually along the shores of the ocean and of lakes 

 and small bodies of water, but sometimes in the interior 

 away from the water. The food of these birds is almost 

 wholly insects, which are harmful in various ways. Among 

 these insects are grasshoppers, army worms, cutworms, 

 cabbage worms, grubs, horseflies, and mosquitoes. 



So cruelly and relentlessly have the shore birds been pur- 

 sued by men who call themselves "sportsmen," that many 

 species are nearly extinct. We hope that the Migratory 

 Bird Law will be enforced and that with the protection this 

 gives them they will again increase and fill their old haunts. 

 But we must ever be on the watch, for there will still be 

 greedy hunters trying to evade the law until all our boys 

 grow up with love and appreciation for the birds. The 



