SOME THREATENED EXOTIC 

 SPECIES 



A S we brought the first part of the present 

 volume to a close by a brief review of a few 

 threatened species of British birds, so may we 

 aptly close the second by a similar notice of a 

 selection of exotic forms which, though still 

 happily surviving in fair numbers, are yet exposed 

 to persecution which may end more quickly and 

 more disastrously than many of us may suspect. 

 There can be no doubt that the vast numbers of 

 skins imported into our islands, as well as into 

 many Continental cities (Paris especially), must 

 prove a very serious drain upon the species repre- 

 sented. What we wrote seven years ago may well 

 be repeated here : " The trade carried on in plumes 

 and bird-skins for hats, muffs, dress trimmings, 

 etc., is enormous. At the present time (we regret 

 the practice still prevails) almost every lady we 



meet has feathers of some kind on her head-dress 



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