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42 Our Dumb Animals 1 (1909-1910)

handle is hein.journals/animals42 and id is 1 raw text is: ~G~Lt1868 AND FOR rOpR, '0. , Animajs 1 The American Humane 13cain 7 4.f. 0 ~ % GOD, * PEACE ON EARTH, 2 KINDNESS, JUSTICE O AND MERCY TO EVERY LIVING A. CREATURE. * 0 - CA CAI NfU~ 0 I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.-COWPER. Vol. 42. Boston, June, 1909. No. 1. Reproduction, by special permission, of one of the Habitat Bird Groups in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. THE AMERICAN EGRET IN A SOUTH CAROLINA CYPRESS FOREST. Background by Bruce Horsfall. Birds by Herbert Lang. (Written for Our Dumb Animals.) AIGRETTE PLUMES: THE WHITE BADGE OF CRUELTY. No form of feather adornment has been and is more harmful in its effects than the wearing of aigrettes or herons' plumes. These dainty, graceful feathers, unlike the distorted skin of some poor humming bird or warbler, carry with them no suggestion of death, and many a woman on whose bonnet they are placed is wholly ignorant of the unspeakable cruelty the taking of these feathers entails. If each plume could tell its own sad history, every humane woman in the land would raise her voice in protest against a fashion which threatens with extinction one of the most beautiful of animate creatures. Aigrette plumes constitute the wed- ding dress of the several species of white herons or egrets, and are worn only during the nesting season. The birds are exceedingly sociable in dis- position, and, when breeding, gather in colonies or rookeries, often containing hundreds of pairs. The plume hunter, armed, prefer- ably with a small rifle, shoots the parent birds as they return with food for their young. The bird falls, the slight report of the rifle does not alarm others that soon follow, and within a few days most of the parents have been killed, while the nestlings, lacking their care, die of starvation. The method is simple-any boy with a gun can become a plume hunter - but so effective that at the present rate of destruction the herons will soon succumb to it. A Florida plume hunter once told the writer that with two or three assistants he had killed 300 egrets in one afternoon; another boasted that WE -s r~IZ NJ

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