"Because of its quiet tints, the beauty of plumage of the is often underrated. Nothing can be more attractive than the soft cinnamon browns of his back and wings, and the satiny white of breast and under parts, tinged in places with buff, and decorated profusely with lance-shaped spots of brown. Lovers of birds alive and free have reason to rejoice that our most interesting birds are not gaudy in coloring. The indiscriminate and terrible , is surely enough to make the most long-suffering lover of nature cry out in grief and pain. To me — let me say it frankly — they look not like an adornment of feathers, but like the dead bodies of birds, foully murdered to minister to a passing fashion."
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Harriet Mann Miller
(née Mann, published under the s Olive Thorne and Olive Thorne Miller; 25 June 1831 – 25 December 1918) was an American author, journalist, naturalist, conservationist, and . In 1901 she became an Elective Member of the .
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