...Her headdress was a monstrous structure adorned with flowers, and superimposed by little ostrich plumes... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Understanding the king’s remark literally, she began to fan him with her ostrich plumes...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...It always chooses the highest points, and is caught on them with bird-lime, the long black tail-feathers being highly esteemed by the natives for plumes...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... But there is also a sound mundane reason which causes the African "king" to pose in these cast-off borrowed plumes...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Meyers, 688Broadway, New York, contains about six hundred plumes and skinsof birds of paradise for sale for millinery purposes...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The plumes that run up into the big figures are the "short selected"coming from the following localities, and quoted at the prices setdown here in shillings and pence...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The total offering of these "short selected" plumes in December1911, was 689 ounces, and in February, 1912, it was 230 ounces...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...They havethe plumes only during the mating and nesting season...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
... It is certainlynot true that the plumes can be obtained without killing the birdsbearing them...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...He and hispartner had sold the plumes gathered there for more than a thousanddollars...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...I have camped with Seminoles, whites, blacks, outlaws, and thosewithin the pale, connected with plume-hunting, and all tell the samestory: The birds are shot to get the plumes...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
..."It is utterly impossible to get fifty egret plumes from any colonyof breeding birds without shooting the birds...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The plumes are chiefly shed in the air while the birds aregoing to or coming from their breeding grounds...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...On October 2, 1912, eleven heads of greater bird ofparadise, with plumes attached, were offered for sale within onehundred feet of the headquarters of the Fourth National ConservationCongress...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...This species has no crest, but hasthe slender white plumes extending back fromthe eye...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This large white Heron is about the same sizeas the Great Blue Heron; it has none of theslender plumes found on the smaller White Herons...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Think of it! The slow starvation of 40,000nestlings, the death of 64,000 birds, to provide the plumes for oneday's sale...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
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