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all true sportsmen and naturalists in India will join us that Government 

 will never be induced, even by the doctrine of non-interference with trade, 

 which is the only argument that can reasonably be urged, ever to relax the 

 prohibitions in respect of plumage, etc., now in force. Even the most 

 impartial student of this question could not help but view, with feelings of 

 dismay and apprehension, the consequences of any such relaxations. For 

 the trade which is now practically extinct would spring into renewed 

 activity, and while causing lasting and irreparable injury by bringing 

 about the extermination of a large number of species of birds, would 

 eventully end by killing itself by destroying that on which it subsisted. 



