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cardinals, kinotishcrs, luininiino-birds , canaries, etc. 
4'liere were also seven lyrc-l)ird tails from Australia, and 
tern-tails and other feathers from Japan; also (piantities of 
crane, heron, hnstard and eagle (|nills. 
h'or the sale on June 14 the catalogues included 210 pack- 
ages of “osprey” ])lumes, besides 200 “osprey” skins; 2,000 
hirds-of-paradise, together with 20 packages ; IG cases of 
“vulture” feathers (vulture is the trade name for the rhea), 
and 80 cases of miscellaneous hirdskins of the usual kind. 
Several of these sales take place each year. 
W e learn from “Animal Rights,” by H. S. Salt, that a 
few years ago a London dealer received in one consignment 
42,000 dead humming-birds, 80,000 aquatic birds and 800,000 
pairs of wings. That an army of men were sent out to 
slaughter 40,000 birds to fill a contract in Paris and that 40,- 
000 terns were sent from Long Island in one season for 
millinery purj^oses. 
Mr. Henry. Oldys, of the United States Biological Survey, 
in “Audubon Societies in Relation to the Farmer,” says that 
one shipment from Arch-Angel, Russia, contained ten tons 
of ptarmigan wings to the fashion centers. The educated, 
cultured women of America as well as Europe are responsible 
for this frightful destruction of bird life. 
The Audubon Societies have been instrumental in check- 
ing the shipment of native birds to Europe and other coun- 
tries, but there is no way to stop the traffic from Europe 
unless by arousing public sentiment to stop the demand in 
America for European birds. In order that the trader may 
realize the cruelty of shipping live birds, I take a clipping 
from Bird Xotes and News: 
Cage-Bird Traffic. 
In December last forty-four dozen Larks and Green- 
finches, newly caught, were sent by a Newcastle dealer to 
Liverpool for shipment to the United States. On arrival at 
New York over 80 per cent of the birds were dead, and those 
surviving in a weak and half-starved condition. Mr. William 
Butcher, chairman of the Associated Audubon Societies, 
writes to our Society (December 21, 1904) : 
