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The Wearing of Birds' Plumage—A Woman's Protest

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IT is very gratifying to find how earnestly the best papers are now taking up the cause of the various beautiful birds hitherto so cruelly and callously, slaughtered for the sake of their plumage. The dealers in feathers seem to think that because they have embarked in that particular trade it must never be abolished, no matter if the most exquisite birds become extinct.

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L., O. The Wearing of Birds' Plumage—A Woman's Protest. Nature 92, 685–686 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092685b0

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