FASHIONS AND BIRD LIFE.
EXAGGERATED STORIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 9. The textilo trade section of the London Chamber of Commerce is investigating various statements by lecturers . and others about the extermination of birds, by feather traders. , . 'it finds that thoso statements' arc i mainly fabrications or exaggeration. Mr. James Bucklatid, a well-known, authority on natural history,.'who has frequently denrecated the destruction of bird life for "tho sake of their plumage, in an address at the Cplonial Institute, London, on December'2o, deplored the destruction of the Australan lyre birds, for. their tail feathers, which were largely catalogued at last year's London sales. Tho illumed egret, the emu, and the bluo "bird of paradise, .were, he said, I suffering extinction in-a similarTvay.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 5
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122FASHIONS AND BIRD LIFE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 5
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