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up the family Anatidae of the order Larnellirostres. 

 Many of these birds are rapidly disappearing before 

 the ' 'sportsman . ' ' 



Wading Birds. — The next case contains the wading 

 birds of the orders Herodines and Alectorides, in- 

 cluding the herons, cranes, egrets, rails, bitterns, etc. 

 Many of these birds, notably the egrets, have been or 

 are being rapidly killed off to supply the demands of 

 fashion. 



Pigeons^ Swifts ? Shore Birds, Fowls. — In the next case 

 are the rest of the wading birds, known as the shore 

 birds, making up the order Limicolse. Here are 

 the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, the killdeer. and 

 other well-known game birds. The tip-up bobbing 

 along the edge of small pools of water, the plover 

 flying along the shore or picking up worms, are fa- 

 miliar to all. Below theru in the same case are the 

 fowls or birds of the order Gallinacei, the most valu- 

 able birds of all from a purely economic, or, shall I 

 say, gastronomic standpoint. Here is the wild tur- 

 key, and in this order belongs our common barnyard 

 fowl, though it is not a native of Xorth America. 

 Here are the grouse, partridge, quail, and prairie 

 chicken. Strict game laws in many of the States is 

 all that is preventing the practical extermination of 

 many of this group. The wild turkey formerly oc- 



