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EXTERMINATING WA$f iBlftDt.Three or four year* ago*Hse we ten of Mono lake were the stamping ground of thousand* of gulls, curlews end other waterbirde, who made it their home in summer end winter. These birds laid their egpe end batched their young on the lstahda in the lake and, save for the oocasional Indian's trip forplunder, they were unmolested. But} it be*came known that upon the Islands millions of gull eggs pare procurable for * small out* la/ OflrtKli addrhoSa^enterprisbiiedlrU-uals began an opposition to the outside egg shippers. The eggs, although too strong for the average egg eater straight, wers found to possess advantages over all othersin the oulinary department, and the hoteland private family's cook alike [[took kindly to the young gulls in their natiae state. Bcplie became a iSro market for tfee produqg% *qd prices were quoted as.high as':tw u bfU a dozen. But the bottom of tlf^ eg “plaqt was encountered one day and the old gtklls never attempted to replenish the depleted stock; As a result the slaughter of the inluooont young birds has deprived Mono Lake of much life and qew the number of gulls is peityeptibly lt;diminishing, the old birds having no place to deposit their eggs, and if they are not allowed to breed upon ibepilaudH again juidiwtgrbed the gull tribe itiit few years 'at the furthest will become ex,tlnct.— Bodis Fres P $*$,
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Elizabethtown Post and Gazette
Elizabethtown, New York, US
Thu, Feb 08, 1883
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