388 THE GREAT BUTE HERON 



others have been destroyed and these great birds driven away to 

 remoter and less disturbed regions. 



Here is an opportunity for the State to do something in the 

 interest of Natural Science, which at the same time is in the 

 direct line of the interests of the people in connection with 

 forest preservation and the protection of our too rapidly dimin- 

 ishing natural water supplies and the preservation thereby of our 

 already too scanty forest regions. It is urged upon all who are 

 lovers of birds, upon the Audubon Societies who are so warmly 

 concerned in their protection and upon all similar organizations 

 that an earnest and united effort be made to bring about such 

 legislative action as may lead to the preservation of this heronry 

 and the protection of this last survival of the Great Blue Heron 

 in Western New York. Now is the time to act to accomplish 

 that result. 



