If the feather dealers had deliberately attempted to form an educational list of the most beautiful and the most interesting birds of the world, they could hardly have done better than they have done in the above list.  If it were in my power to show the reader a colored plate of each species now being exterminated by the feather trade, he would be startled by the exhibit.  That the very choicest birds of the whole avian world should be thus blotted out at the behest of vain and heartless women is a shame, a disgrace and world-wide loss.

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LONDON FEATHER SALE OF FEBRUARY, 1911

Sold by Hale & Sons            Sold by Dalton & Young
Aigrettes         3,069 ounces    Aigrettes         1,606 ounces
Herons              960 "         Herons              250 "
Birds of Paradise 1,920 skins     Paradise          4,330 bodies

Sold by Figgis & Co.            Sold by Lewis & Peat
Aigrettes           421 ounces    Aigrettes         1,250 ounces
Herons              103 "         Paradise            362 skins
Paradise            414 skins     Eagles              384 "
Eagles            2,600 "         Trogons             206 "
Condors           1,580 "         Hummingbirds     24,800 "
Bustards          2,400 "

LONDON FEATHER SALE OF MAY, 1911

Sold by Hale & Sons Sold by Dalton & Young
Aigrettes 1,390 ounces Aigrettes 2,921 ounces
Herons 178 " Herons 254 "
Paradise 1,686 skins Paradise 5,303 skins
Red Ibis 868 " Golden Pheasants 1,000 "
Junglecocks 1,550 "
Parrots 1,700 "
Herons 500 "

Sold by Figgis & Co.            Sold by Lewis & Peat
Aigrettes           201 ounces    Aigrettes           590 ounces
Herons              248 "         Herons              190 "
Paradise            546 skins     Paradise             60 skins
Falcons, Hawks    1,500 "         Trogons             348 "
Hummingbirds      6,250 "

LONDON FEATHER SALE OF OCTOBER, 1911

Sold by Hale & Sons            Sold by Dalton & Young
Aigrettes         1,020 ounces    Aigrettes         5,879 ounces
Paradise          2,209 skins     Heron             1,608 "
Hummingbirds     10,040 "         Paradise          2,850 skins
Bustard          28,000 quills    Condors           1,500 "
Eagles            1,900 "

Sold by Figgis & Co.  Sold by Lewis & Peat
Aigrettes         1,501 ounces    Aigrettes         1,680 ounces
Herons              140 "         Herons              400 "
Paradise            318 skins     Birds of Paradise   700 skins

If I am correctly informed, the London feather trade admits that it requires six egrets to yield one “ounce” of aigrette plumes.  This being the case, the 21,528 ounces sold as above stand for 129,168 egrets killed for nine months’ supply of egret plumes, for London alone.