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sales in February and April of that year there were large supplies 

 of Egret feathers, Impeyan Pheasants, Parrots, Kingfishers, 

 Ringneeks, and other birds from India. There were further 

 offers of East Indian birds at the sales in 1909. 



Birds also come from our Colonies in spite of Colonial laws 

 prohibiting the killing or the export of those very species. 



" The Feather Trade " paragraph might more suitably read : 



" That poaching and smuggling go on is undoubted. Plume- 

 hunters and plume-traders will kill what they can, where they 

 can, and when they can, and will make all the profit they can, so 

 long as there is a market." 



