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IN the Zoologist for this month (No. 691) is recorded the destruction and capture of the following rare bird visitants to our shores:—Six crossbills, one goshawk, one flamingo, one little bustard, one great shearwater, one avocet, and two Sclavonian grebes. Is it not time this senseless and unwarrantable destruction of these beautiful creatures ceased? Will you, as the leading scientific Journal, lift up your voice against it, and earn the gratitude of every lover of nature?
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RIDSDALE, E. The Wanton Destruction of Rare Visitants to our Shores. Nature 59, 296 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059296a0
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