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Identifier: birdlore181916nati (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n, the Egret is apparently increasing very little in numbers in South Florida. A steamboat company operating between [[:Snowy Herons:Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers and Miami refers, in an advertisement, to the millions of Egrets along Okeechobee and the Canals; but it is mistaken. This misconception has probably arisen from the inability of the average observer to distinguish between the Egret and other birds of white plumage, notably the White Ibis and the young of the Little Blue Heron. Last summer I made a twenty-six-day cruise from Tampa to Key West, in company with Herbert K. Job, visiting all the bird-rookeries along the southwest coast of Florida, in the Ten Thousand Islands, and up certain rivers to the Everglades, and I saw less than five hundred pairs of Egrets and twenty pairs of {w]] during the entire trip; and, with the exception of the Snowies, and possibly fifty pairs of American Egrets, all these birds were found in Alligator Bay at the head of Chatham River. This colony was guarded the past year by Sam Williams,
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EDWARD A. McILHENNY (64) The Audubon Societies 6S of Marco, an agent of the National Association; but unless a more adequate fund can be provided for this purpose. Mr. Williams must leave it to the plume-hunters. In this connection, I would like to emphasize the necessity of having a competent warden protect this last Egret-colony of any importance on the southwestcoast of Florida. Before these birds were molested by the millinery trade, they nested on all the islands in the bay, and in the mangrove bushes along the mainland clear to the sawgrass; but since the aigrette has been used extensively by the millinery trade, this colony has been shot out every year until 1913, when Sam Williams was first employed by Charles Willis Ward and the Audubon Society to protect them. Williams succeeded in bringing the birds through that season with the loss of only seven, which were killed by plume-hunters in a bold but unsuccessful attack upon the rookery. The next year, owing to lack of money, the rookery was

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