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evidence which he gave, in June, before the select committee of the 

 House of Lords on the importation of plumage prohibition bill, said : 



Last year I knew of another rookery (of egrets) in New South Wales where 

 some brigands went down and destroyed, I think, about 50 birds. Shortly after 

 it was done we sent a photographer up, who got a very interesting series of pho- 

 tographs taken. He photographed a lot of dead birds and some young ones that 

 died in their nests, and he got one photograph, which is almost unique, of three 

 young birds just with their heads dropping, almost at the point of death. 



We have listened lately to much talk about the right of women to 

 vote. I beg to point out that there are modes of exercising political 

 power far more efficacious than an occasional visit to the polling sta- 

 tion. Woman — voteless woman — can, if she will, do more than even 

 the British Parliament to j)revent the destruction of beautiful birds. 



