BIRD BLAUGHTEU IN RUSSIA.
80,000 MAGPIES TO PROVIDE HAT TRIMMINGS* Magpies, which abound in the environs of Moscow, have a bad time in store for them. One Berlin firm, alone has given an order for the immediate supply of 80,000 ' of these birds, which will be. shot to provide trimmings for ladies' hats. Agriculturists deplore such wholesale slaughter of birds, which feed largely on noxious insects. ' / Russia has recently been obtaining an unenviable notoriety for the slaughter of wild birds for millinery purposes. Archangel is a well-known centre for the^gxport of the wings ajid feathers of birds.- Blackthroated divers' necks are sold in vast quantities there for ladies' cloaks, muffs, boas, etc. The wings of the. willow grouse, also, are brought down in largo cargoes to Archangel, one such cargo recently' amounting to ten tons. The white, plumage of the willow grouse lias the unusual quality that it can be dyed any colour and used for ladies', hats. ;
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7727, 10 June 1903, Page 2
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