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S of these birds are worth nearly their weight in gold, egrets have
become extinct in some parts of the world. The export of plumage from
India is unlawful, but this fact does not prevent a very large feather
trade being carried on, since it is not difficult to smuggle "ospreys"
out of the country. Doubtless the existing Notification of the
Government of India, prohibiting the export of plumage, has the effect
of checking, to some extent, the destruction of egrets, but there is no
denying the fact that many of the larger species are still shot for
their plumes while breeding. In the case of cattle-egrets (_Bubulcus
coromandus_) the custom of shooting them when on the nest has given
place to a more humane and more sensible method of obtaining their
nuchal plumes. These, as we have seen, arise early in May, but the birds
do not begin to nest until the end of June. The cattle-egret is
gregarious; it is the large white bird that accompanies cattle in order
to secure the insects put up by the grazing quadrupeds. Taking advantage
of the social habits of these egrets the plume-hunters issue forth early
in May and betake themselves, in parties of five or six, to the villages
where the birds roost. Their apparatus consists of two nets, each some
eight feet long and three broad. These are laid flat on the ground in
shallow water, parallel to one another, about a yard apar


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