The traffic in destruction of bird-life has become tremendous and infamous. A consignment of goods to a London firm recently, according to an English paper, had the following items: Osprey plumes, 11,352 ounces; vulture plumes, 186 pounds; peacock feathers, 215,051 bundles; birds of paradise, 2,362 bundles; Indian parrots, 228,289 bundles; bronze pigeons, including the goura, 1,677 bundles; tanagers and sundry birds, 38,198 bundles; humming-birds, 116,490 bundles; jays and kingfishers, 48,759 bundles; impeyan and other jungle fowl, 4,952 bundles; owls and hawks, 7,163 bundles. Read this, and think of the millions of sweet songs hushed forever, of the living, moving, resplendent forest bouquets plucked to adorn “Christian” women’s hats. In a fashionable English paper an item of news from Paris reads: “Birds are worn more than ever, and blouses made entirely of feathers are coming into fashion.” O sisters in Christ, are not your hearts touched by this wanton, wicked slaughter of God’s songsters? Will you not forego decoration which must be purchased at such a price of pain and sacrifice of the most harmless and beautiful of God’s creatures?