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Now this is what I call wanton extravagance and cruelty. At 

 that rate our birds would some become entirely depopulated, and 

 it is a notable fact that some our best songsters are becoming 

 very scarce. 



I do not refer to the professional ornithologist and oologist, or 

 or wholesale natural history and egg dealer, as they have to cany 

 a large stock of eggs constantly on hand, and all snch must see the 

 advisability of protecting and promoting our bird life, but to 

 young collectors and small boy& who collect the eggs and de- 

 stroy tne nests and even the birds themselves as much as possible 

 merely from idleness, having no love or interest in the sport but 

 the cruelty that it affords them, exchanging and bartering the 

 eggs like so many pretty beads, destroying them as soon as the 

 novelty wears off or casting them aside for some other amuse- 

 ment. 



Now what I would suggest is this: let every one begin by col- 

 lecting single eggs, and if you do not get tired of them in one 

 year then collect sets and exchange, sell or do as you wish wi;h 

 them, but use some moderation — collect sparingly. 



It is a wonder to me that through the oologist for the eggs, the 

 taxidermist for the skins, the milliner for the plumes and feathers, 

 and the sportsman for the pot, we have any birds left at all. 



EDITOKIAL NOTES. 

 The Scientist is dead. 



Co/nmend us to A. E. Kibbe, of Mayville, N. Y., for fine tax- 

 idermal work. 



Our thanks are due Wm. W. Adams, of Mapleton, N. Y., for 

 a number of fine fossils. 



