21 OCTOBER 1916, Page 14

BIRDS OF PARADISE.

(To TEE EDITOR or THE SPECIATON.”3

would like to draw your attention to the enclosed, taken from the columns of a great daily, hoping that you will comment upon it as you see fit, as you so well know how to do :- BIRDS of PARADISE.—All qualities and prices for entire bird* from £5 .i.wards, direct from the hunter, 41. Coster, Mewauks, 1 ■ toh New Guinea.

Ii there not enough of destruction around us already, and why are some of God's loveliest creations to be slaughtered simply to gratify the vanity of useless women, and to fill the pockets of greedy tradesmen? And what about the freight question? Even little murdered birds of paradise take up room.—I am, Sir, &c., D. C. L.