3 JULY 1920, Page 23

THE PLUMAGE BILL.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I have read the correspondence in your recent issues on this subject with great interest. With regard to the dropped plumes, I cannot bring myself to believe in the patient Spanish- Indian hunter waiting until the birds shed the feathers " in the course of nature," especially as a " dead " feather—as these dropped plumes are called—is worth only one-fifth or one-sixth of a "live" feather. I am afraid that I entirely agree with Mr. Massingham in the use of the words " unscrupulous propa- ganda." One can almost hear the jangling of the wires as they are being pulled.—I am, Sir, &c., H. HESKETH-PRICHARD.