vi PREFACE. 
which they have received from the cruel and 
unthinking has been the great sorrow of my life. 
Although in a humble way, ‘in season,’ and 
perhaps, sometimes, ‘out of season,’ I have 
worked and pleaded for a better and wiser treat- 
ment of them, yet I shall ever remain their 
grateful debtor. 
If I have written anything that shall make 
them better known and better loved—anything 
that shall cause a woman to hesitate before 
allowing any part of one to disfigure her gar- 
ment—anything that will: prevent the present 
lavish waste of life by the collector of specimens— 
anything that will check the wholesale destruc- 
tion of nests by the thoughtless egg collector— 
I shall feel repaid for the labor bestowed. 
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