568 Notes and News. [o^ 



In one place he saw piles of burlap-covered bales fiUed with Rhea feathers 

 aggregating sixty tons in weight, all the feathers having been taken from 

 wild killed birds. 



These are the feathers used so extensively for feather dusters and lately 

 for millinery purposes also. Fiu-ther inquiry elicited the fact that thirty- 

 four tons of these same feathers had been exported during the first six 

 months of the last fiscal year. 



The provision of the new tariff prohibiting the importation of wild bird 

 plumage will fortunately deal a death blow to this traffic. 



