vi PREFACE 



said with bitterness in the essay on " Exotic Birds 

 for Britain " anent the feather-wearing fashion and 

 of the London trade in dead birds and the refusal 

 of women at that time to help us in trying to save 

 the beautiful wild bird life of this country and of the 

 world generally from extermination* Happily, the 

 last twenty years of the life and work of the Royal 

 Society for the Protection of Birds have changed all 

 that, and it would not now be too much to say that 

 all right-thinking persons in this country, men and 

 women, are anxious to see the end of this iniquitous 

 traffic. 



W. H. H. 



September, 1919* 



