"And the fowl of the air." The birds of all kinds seem too abundant to be destroyed. But they are not. They cannot resist man's dominion. The carrier pigeon that once swarmed in countless millions in the North American continent seems now to have been practically exterminate ed. One never hears a bird in Japanese forests. The silence is painful. It is, I understand, that the Japanese heard that western women, adorn their hats with birds and so Japan ws stripped of the most beautiful creatures God made to meet the wants of a wicked vanity, We all know, that grouse, partridges and suchlike game-birds would have been exterminated long ago, had they- not been preserved very rigorously. The smal] birds of northern Europe are trapped for food in thousands as they cross the Balkans in autumn, Rare birds, once plentiful, visit Great Britain at intervals but some fool with a gun shoots them and writes ta the papers of his heroic deed. Egrets are vanishing from Vene-mela and from Florida, because their reproductive capacity dan-not keep peace with modern trapping and the hardheartedness of women. Man's dominion is a fact, sure enough. He can exter-
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