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Identifier: birdlore151913nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ELK CALVES DYING OF STARVATION IN JACKSONS HOLE, WYOMING Photographed by S. N. Leek (143)
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The Audubon Societies i45 ent species from the Yellowstone ParkElk. The Game Committee will discour-age any plan for the distribution of Elkfrom the Yellowstone to regions wherethey will mix with, and by interbreedingdestroy other species of Elk. No more Elk should be shipped tothe Glacier National Park, which alreadypossesses an adequate breeding reserve.—T. G. P. Prohibit Feather Importations The Ways and Means Committee ofour National Congress has recently beenengaged in revising the Tariff Schedule. On January 30, the writer appearedbefore this Committee on behalf of theNational Association of Audubon Societiesand presented a proposition to the effectthat Congress should absolutely prohibitthe importation of aigrettes and thefeathers of other wild birds native to theUnited States as well as those taken frombirds whose feathers resemble those nativeto this country. Dr. William T. Hornaday, of the NewYork Zoological Society, was also presentand told the Committee much about thedes

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