Sad Work With The Birds

The beautiful httle mackerel gulls, whieh, a few years since, were so plena tiful in our Jlaine bays and estuaries, have entirely disappeared, and are now never seen. The cause which effected this was the demand for plumage for the decoration of the fall and winter bonnet. So exacüng was this that taxidermists established branches near the supply, that they might prepare the skins of these and other birds as soon as killed. For the mackerel pull they paid ten cents each, a price so remunerative to professional gunners that these birds were in the short space of two years practically exterminated. All of the snipe f amily were also in great demand; even the little ox-eye did not escape, for a single order was placed for 600,000 of these at three cents each to