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PROTECTING AFRICAN BIRDS. 
Tue French have decided to 
preserve and increase the birds whose plumage 
| has long been a great source of commerce in 
the region of the upper Niger, a little south of 
| the desert of Sahara. This part of the western 
| Sudan is included in the French province of the 
| upper Senegal and Niger. It is the region that 
| for many generations rent by camel across the 
Sahara to the Euporean markets the feathers of 
the ostrich and heron. 
| To-day the steamboat and the railroad tap this 
| region, though they do not penetrate it. They 
| have killed the desert caravan trade, and ostrich 
| feathers and heron plumes now take the steam 
| route to the Atlantic. But the quantity of these 
prized commodities sent to the Niger for ship- 
|; ment has been gradually decreasing and the 
| French decided to look into the matter. The 
| natives kill the animals to get the feathers, and 
| it was feared that the birds were being an- 
| nihilated. 
The source of most of the supply of feathers 
/is in the vast area south of the great northern 
bend of the Niger, which up to this time has 
been one of the large unexplored regions. It is 
still a big white space on our maps, but it will 
be so no longer as soon as Dr. J. Decorse pre- 
'pares his map material for publication. He was 
sent there to study the bird question and has 
traversed the region in all directions. It is an- 
|other instance of the spread of geographical 
| knowledge through commercial effort. 
Dr. Decorse was sent there by the Governor 
|of the upper Senegal and Niger in October, 
|1905, and he has only recently pus ned from it. 
|He found there the Tuaregs and other Moham- 
|medan natives who in days gone by would have 
killed any white man at sight, though they col- 
|lected feathers to adorn the costumes of the 
|women of the white race. But they have been 
so cowed by the news of French supremacy in 
all the surrounding regions that they offered him 
no harm, though he and his small party 
wandered through their country for about a 
year and a half. 
His mission has achieved results of much 
economic importance. He says the natives are 
|rapidly exterminating the birds that have so 
|\long yielded them a golden harvest. He ad- 
|vises radical measures to prevent their extinc- 
ition and small French posts through the coun- 
itry to enforce the proposed regulations. 
He suggests that the hunting of the plumed 
jheron be entirely interdicted for two years and 
ithat to increase the supply reservations be es- 
|tablished within which the natives shall never 
|be permitted to hunt this bird. 
| -He found that the wild ostrich is still very 
abundant, though its numbers have been greatly 
reduced. He advises that the Government es- 
tablish stations to the west of the Niger for the 
domestication of aps animal, just as has been 
done on a large scale in South Africa. The ter- 
titories within the Niger bend are not yet suf- 
ficiently well organized for the starting of 
ystrich ranches, and the region he recommends 
or the experiment is west of the Niger, be- 
|;ween Faguibine on the north and Farimake on 
he south. His plans, presented to the Govern- 
jment in great detail, are based upon the idea 
hat the ranches should be very large and that 
he birds should be kept in their natural state 
is nearly as possible. 
Dr. Decorse says that the wild ostrich in the 
*rench possession is sure to be exterminated if 
t continues to be killed to obtain its plumage. 
Paris, the greatest of ostrich feather markets, 
vill have to depend on foreign sources of sup- 
sly unless the bird is domesticated in the French 
lomain. He asks for three years in which to 
tive a fair trial to the project. 
The Government has decided to supply funds 
or a thorough test of the question whether the 
strich can be successfully domesticated in the 
*rench Sudan. Dr. Decorse will have charge 
of the work. The feather trade of Paris, and 
specially the Syndicat des Plumassiers, is fol- 
owing the enterprise with the greatest interest. 
—The Sun. 
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