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Identifier: bookofbirdscommo00nati (find matches)
Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, F. H., (Frederic Hedge), 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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xtent the presentprivileges of sportsmen, they should n<itcomplain, since the ultimate result of thelaw. if it be enforced, will be largely toincrease the number of our game birds.Should it then somewhat curtail the privi-leges of the ))resent generation of s))orts-men, it will at least insure t<» future gen-erations the perpetuity of our game birds. Mere it may be ;)ointed out that if thepresent Migratory F.ird Law. now beforethe Inited States Supreme Court, shouldfail to meet the test of legal re<;uirementsand be pronounced invaliil. bird conser-vationists need not be discouraged, sincetwo courses .are open: first, so to anieiulthe law that it will stand every legal test;econd, to obtain a constitutional amend-iient which will effect the desired end. Xnieiidments to our ccMistitution areproverbially difficult to secure, but whocan doubt that with the wi<Iespread in-terest in bird life of the present geiiera-tion of Americans such an amendmentcan be obtained in due time.
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WHrSSESSEEli.^ . ,i^ J»tiM«9BeaB»»Jl«S5al!»s.it^ 154 ami-:kicax r.AMi. 1:1 rds 15.^ SroKTSMKX AS COXSI:k\AT( )KS ()!• CAMI-; There arc many good citizens in theLnitcd States who believe that huntingis wrong and who consider all S;)ortsnienarch enemies of wild life. There aresportsmen and sj:)ortsmen, and the genu-ine lover of gun and dog will almost in-variably be found to be a lover of natureand at heart a conservationist of wild life. lie the sportsman what he may, the.sportsmen of the Lnited States, as abody, constitute a very imi)ortant factorin the jiresent struggle to keej) wild crea-tures from total extinction. Many of uswho love wild life and who long agoabandoned the use of the gun, neverthe-less believe that game exists for reasons(»ther than esthetic. Only extremists in-sist that all animal life is sacred and muston no account be taken, liirds, in addi-ti(^n to their esthetic value and their im-l)ortance as allies of the farmer in hiswarfare on insects, are importa

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