A great Frenchman says that if it weren't for the birds human beings would perish from the face of the earth.

They are doing all this for us, and how are we rewarding them?
All over America they are hunted and killed.
Five million birds must be caught every year for American women to wear in their hats and bonnets.

Just think of it, girls, Isn't it dreadful?
Five million innocent, hardworking, beautiful birds killed, that thoughtless girls and women may ornament themselves with their little dead bodies.

One million bobolinks have been killed in one month near Philadelphia.

Seventy song-birds were sent from one Long Island village to New York milliners.
"In Florida, cruel men shoot the mother birds on their nests while they are rearing their young, because their plumage is prettiest at that time, The little ones cry pitifully, and starve to death.