July 17, 1909] 
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BIRD SLAUGHTER IN RUSSIA. 
I The enormous decrease in the number of many 
<inds of birds now apparent in Russia is mainly 
lue to the reckless destruction of eggs which 
innually takes place in different parts of the 
lountry. lhe Russian peasant, says the Deutsche 
iigerzeitung, appropriates everything; he takes 
II the down and eggs and kills the sitting birds, 
n the Arctic, in the Southern Caspian and in 
te Aral-Caspian regions, the destruction, which 
. carried on, is immense. On Sundays and holi- 
ays the inhabitants in the Caspian districts set 
irth m great fleets of rafts for the purpose. 
When one of these is loaded up with eggs 
id dead birds the cargo is put ashore and a 
esh start made. It frequently happens that 
great portion of the eggs are too far advanced 
id must lie thrown away ; while such, too, is 
e case when the weather prevents their being 
Inded- they are affected by the sun and thrown 
• erboard. Enormous numbers of swan, goose, 
)lican, duck, gull and other eggs are collected 
11 such an expedition. 
In the government of Astrachan fifty persons 
<n take 1,000 eggs each, a part of which are 
ted as food for pigs and the rest are sold to 
te soap factories. In the market of the town 
c Astrachan alone there are offered for sale, 
r ^? rts governor, over 500,000 eggs annually, 
lhe Ural Cossacks in May and June collect 
r.iny thousands of eggs which are mostly sold 
iGurjeff, a town at the mouth of the entrance 
d the Ural River into the Caspian Sea. For- 
irly the waters in the government of Astra- 
: in swarmed with ducks and other web-footed 
:vl; now, owing to this senseless destruction 
> eggs, their numbers have decreased to an 
urming extent. 
'n Asiatic Russia, too, a similar state of things 
-Sts. Vast quantities of swan, goose and duck 
(js are offered for sale in the Siberian market 
'l:es. 
, n the Far East, on the rocky shores of the 
.nmodore Islands, the eggs of sea fowl, prin- 
1 iUy auksi and puffins, in incalculable numbers 
r collected and sent off in casks to San Fran- 
10 and Petropaulovsk, in which latter town 
F are much esteemed owing to the impossi- 
1 y of keeping domestic fowls caused by the 
latitudes of wandering hungry dogs. In Semi- 
a tmsk according to the governor’s estimate, 
1 Kirghiz collect on an average about 300 
a;e and duck eggs each, and so too it is in 
euretschensk. 
ut even the number of eggs, vast as it is, 
■: purposes of sale in Russia is small 
) pared with the quantity destroyed by dogs 
1 persons herding cattle or collected by the 
Mle for their own use. In spring all the 
I'nps, fens, reed beds and tarns are thor- 
nly searched and hunted over. The Russian 
::ant cannot be blamed, especially in famine 
: ; s , jpr trying to add to his scanty fare but 
«indiscriminate destruction of birds’ eggs 
bh is caused by hungry dogs, children and 
te herds, cannot be justified. 
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