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the London plume sale of August, 1907 ; 100 at the December 

 sale ; while in 1905 twelve dozen were sold at Sydney for exporta- 

 tion to London. Sydney Morning Herald, September 15, 1905. 



The Emu. 



" The wild Emus are rapidly being exterminated, and I 

 believe that it is entirely from these that the emu feather 

 boas are manufactured." Dr. Graham Renshaw (Letter 

 to the S.P.B., 1903). 



The Grebe. 



" Over most of the country the Grebes are known only as 

 migrants, when they are so wary and expert in diving that 

 they are well prepared to take care of themselves. But on 



the breeding grounds all is different The Grebes 



followed close after me, or, diving, came up again only a few 

 feet away, cackling and scolding, as they tried to drive or 

 coax me away from their nests, boldly offering their lives for 



the safety of their homes Harmless, beautiful, 



defenceless, they fill the place among birds which the fur 

 seals do among mammals, and their doom seems as sure 

 and as sad. While among the nests watching the brave, 

 beautiful little people building and guarding their homes 

 and caring for their young, I could hear the guns of the skin- 

 hunters along the shores of the lake all day, and I was told 

 that from early spring until the lakes freeze in fall, the trade 

 goes on, though most successfully during the breeding 

 season." Vernon Bailey, Biological Survey, U S.A. 



Mr. Finley writes (1905) of finding sixty Grebes' nests in a 

 single small island. We found but one riest, and saw only 

 an occasional wary bird. Skinned bodies floating here and 

 there told the story of their disappearance. A Grebe-hunter 

 summed up the situation by saying that when the price fell 

 to fifteen cents, they were not worth hunting, but now that 



they had gone up to fifty cents, there was money in it 



No stockbroker keeps his eye more keenly on the tape than 



