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INTRODUCTION. 
for timely riddance by unnumbered birds, would be followed by a 
general failure and famine. Public economy and utility, then, 
no less than humanity, plead for the protection of the feathered 
race ; and the wanton destruction of birds, so useful, beautiful, and 
amusing, if not treated as such by law, ought to be considered as a 
crime by every moral, feeling, and reflecting mind. 
Nest of the Tailor-Bird. 
