Maine 52 per cent. New Hampshire 32 per cent. Vermont 30 per cent. Massachusetts 27 per cent. Rhode Island 60 per cent. Connecticut 75 per cent. New York 48 per cent. New Jersey 37 per cent. Pennsylvania 51 per cent. Ohio 38 per cent. Indiana 60 per cent. Illinois 38 per cent. Michigan 28 per cent. Wisconsin 40 per cent. Iowa 37 per cent. Missouri 36 per cent. Nebraska 10 per cent. North Dakota 58 per cent. District of Columbia 33 per cent. South Carolina 32 per cent. Georgia 65 per cent. Florida 77 per cent. Mississippi 37 per cent. Louisiana 55 per cent. Texas 67 per cent. Arkansas 50 per cent. Montana 75 per cent. Idaho 40 per cent. Colorado 28 per cent. Indian Territory 75 per cent. General Average 46 per cent. At least three-fifths of the total area of the United States is represented by the thirty states and territories above named, and the general average of decrease of bird life therein is 46 per cent. These figures are startling indeed and should arouse everyone to the gravity of the situation which confronts us. It requires but little calculation to show that if the volume of bird life has suffered a loss of 46 per cent. within fifteen years, at this rate of destruction practically all birds will be exterminated in less than a score of years from now. WE BELIEVE IT. There is no being so homely, none so venomous, none so encased in slime or armed with sword-like spines, none so sluggish or so abrupt in behavior, that it cannot win our favor and admiration--the more, the better we know it. However it may be in human society, with the naturalist it is not familiarity which breeds contempt. On the contrary, it has been said, with every step of his advancing knowledge he finds in what was at first indifferent, unattractive, or repulsive, some wonder of mechanism, some exquisite beauty of detail, some strangeness of habit. Shame he feels at having so long had eyes which seeing saw not; regret he feels that the limits of his life should be continually contracting, while the boundaries of his science are always expanding; but so long as he can study and examine, he is so far contented and happy. THE PINEAPPLE.