A LOVER OF BIRDS

Southland Times, Issue 19395, 8 November 1924, Page 19 (Supplement)

A LOVER OF BIRDS

A SISTERS TRIBUTE TO HER BROTHER’S MEMORY. a wealthy American woman has had a great inspiration when thinking of a suitable memorial to her dead brother. She has given 26,000 acres of marsh lands in Louisiana to the Audubon Society as a wild bird sanctuary. She has also set up a fund out of which these marshes are to be kept cultivated and seeded with plants such as ducks and other birds feed on. This property is in the middle of the famous Gulf Coast gathering ground, where thousands upon thousands of wild-fowl spend the winter. Owing to extensive land reclamation during the last few years, the birds have not been getting enough to eat, and have flown north in an emaciated condition in the spring. Truly it will be a great memorial to a great lover of birds—the late Paul J. Rainey, of New York.