Excerpt from Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Vol. 2: The Larger Foreign Birds Bird protection, in so far as it puts a -st0p to the shoot ing down of every rare bird which approaches our shores, or to the wicked slaughter of sea - birds by trippers with guns, and more particularly in its efforts to put a stop to the iniquitous traffic in bird skins and plumes for the adornment of hats and bonnets, is an excellent institution; but when, not content with this good work, it strives to do away with the study of birds in cage ...
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Excerpt from Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Vol. 2: The Larger Foreign Birds Bird protection, in so far as it puts a -st0p to the shoot ing down of every rare bird which approaches our shores, or to the wicked slaughter of sea - birds by trippers with guns, and more particularly in its efforts to put a stop to the iniquitous traffic in bird skins and plumes for the adornment of hats and bonnets, is an excellent institution; but when, not content with this good work, it strives to do away with the study of birds in cage and aviary, it becomes at once an evil thing for which posterity will have just cause to curse its advocates. Bird-life can only be partially studied by the field naturalist owing to the skulking nature of many birds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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