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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ds were subjected to incalculabledamage by insect pests, and that the com-bating of this evil had become one of thegreatest diflSculties of the Indian agri-culturist. The principal enemies of thesepests were the insectivorous birds, yetthese were the very species that hithertohas been relentlessly slaughtered for theirplumage. Furthermore, the Chambercontinued: As the birds that are killed for millinery are held in reverence, theirdestruction, for any purpose, is stronglyresented by Hindus throughout the coun-try, and, with the present political unrestin India, it would be extremely unwise inany way to outrage such deep-rootedfeelings. As an object lesson on the respectwhich the feather-dealer pays to thewishes of India—or of any other country,for the matter of that—that she may beallowed to keep her own birds for thebenefit of her agriculture and of her people,it may serve a useful purpose to let youknow that the plumage of all that is heldmost sacred in Hindu mythology, all that
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EGRET SHOT BY FLORIDA PLUME-HUNTER AND BACK SCALPED FOR THE PLUME Photographed by Audubon Warden O. E. Baynard 78 Bird - Lore is most prized for beauty or iitilily, inI lie wild-bird life of In<lia, is, to thishour, smuKslcd out of that country andsold in the London feather mart. . . . The injury done to domestic animalsand to man by biting and parasitic insectsis great beyond the imagination of thosewho have no knowledge of tropical climes.One of the first acts of Mr. Wilson, whenhe became President of the United States,was to issue an Executive Order pro-hibiting, under heavy penalties for infrac-tion, the destruction of any wild bird inthe Panama Canal Zone. A matter ofvery grave concern for us all is the enor-mous number of fly-catching and parasite-eating birds that are being killed annuallyfor their plumage in Central Africa. Forinstance, in warm countries Kingfishersfeed almost entirely on insects, and it is aconservative estimate to say that inthese regions every Kingfisher

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