It is that the fashions have changed and there is really no demand at the present moment for plumage of that kind.
The plumage trade is at present almost dead.
He was thinking of the plumage of privilege.
No doubt very substantial quantities of this plumage were being imported during that period.
They have to bear a label setting out what is inside them, and plumage is an article which cannot be imported.
We must not pity the plumage too much, though we cannot be but nostalgic when reforms of this kind are proposed.
They are instructed that if any plumage is found it is to be detained.
Hence, not just black ravens are to be considered naturally possible but also white ravens and ravens with no plumage at all.
