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into the mart, no allegation of " artificial "or " moulted 

 feathers " can be maintained no person has dared to invent 

 such a fable. They may be sold as " poultry " feathers or as 

 " manufactured " feathers to the unsuspicious purchasers. 

 Efforts, too, may be made to prevent the details of sales from 

 being made public. It may be argued that birds are catalogued 

 for which there is known to be no market ; that the names by 

 which they are catalogued are not the correct names ; that certain 

 birds cannot be nearing extermination because there are stil) 

 recesses of forest and swamp which the hunters have not yet 

 penetrated. But unanswerable facts remain. 



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