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spots will surprise the people. This is the case 

 wherever bird reservations are established. At 

 Ipswich, Massachusetts, the shores of a small, 

 protected pond are thronged with shore-birds 

 of many species which display almost no fear 

 of man, while on the neighboring beaches, where 

 they are shot, they are very wary. In the city 

 of Boston the Charles River Basin and Jamaica 

 Pond are the resorts of numerous ducks that 

 pay but little attention to the people, while in 

 the sea and ponds near by, where shooting is 

 allowed, the ducks show their usual wildness. 



It is useless to pass laws if they are not ob- 

 served or if the sentiment of the community 

 is against them. This reform, which will be of 

 such great value to our northern seacoast, can 

 only be accomplished by education, and these 

 bird reservations with their eider-farms will be 

 one of the best means to that end. 



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