Isn't it dreadful?
Five million innocent, hard-working, 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 bird 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.

Every bird of the rarer kinds that is killed, such as humming birds, orioles and kingfishers, means the death of several others that is, the young that starve to death, the wounded that fly away to die, and those whose plumage is so torn that it is not fit to put in a fine lady's bonnet.