When the heron is mature he'll have a lovely
ruff of neck plumes, cream in colour, down the front of his considerable neck.
It was these neck plumes which were so very popular on ladies hats and one of
the reasons the Migratory Bird Act of 1918 was enacted.



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and the watergardening labradors
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