Our vanishing wild life; its extermination and preservation (1913)
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 · New York, New York Zoological Society · leaf 158
BIRD TRAGEDY ON LAYSAN ISLAND 139 … Paris, the special market for the wings of sea-birds slaughtered in the North Pacific. Schlemmer the Slaughterer bought a cheap vessel, hired twenty- three phlegmatic and cold-blooded Japanese laborers, and organized a raid on Laysan. With the utmost secrecy he sailed from Honolulu, landed his…
Game protection · Game-laws · Game-laws -- United States
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