...McIlhenny's egret preserve, at Avery Island, Louisiana, became a pronounced success, we had believed that our two egrets soon would become totally extinct in the United States... 
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The success of this campaign is attested by the fact that last yeara number of egrets were seen in eastern Massachusetts—for thefirst time in many years...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Where there were, a few years ago, thousands of blueherons, egrets, wood ducks, redbirds, and Baltimore orioles, allthose birds are now almost extinct in this state...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The "aigrettes" of the feather trade come from egrets, and, beingvery light, it requires the death of several birds to yield oneounce...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...If I am correctly informed, the London feather trade admits that itrequires six egrets to yield one "ounce" of aigrette plumes...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The chief burden of the defender of bird slaughter for millinerypurposes is on account of the destruction of egrets and herons, butparticularly the former...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...I have before me your letter of June 8th, asking for information asto whether or no egrets shed their plumes at their nesting places insufficient quantities to enable them to be gathered commercially...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Last spring, I wenttwice a week to a breeding colony of American and snowy egrets, fromearly in April until June 8...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...If that millineryplume law is repealed, the fate of the American and snowy egrets issealed, for the few birds that remain will be shot to the very lastone...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
... and the extermination of the egrets bylawless and dangerous men...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...They nest in large colonies in companywith Egrets and Little Blue Herons,placing their nests in the mangroves, onlya few feet above the water...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Australia has representatives of the Ibises,Spoonbills, Storks, Herons, Egrets, Night Herons, and Bitterns, sowell known in every part of the world...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...—We saw awhite (immature) individual feeding with Reddish Egrets alongan inlet at Camp 2 on July 8...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...—Ten individuals ofthis species were feeding in association with Reddish Egrets in theinlet at Camp 2 on July 9...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...A few men armedwith guns are able to shoot every adult member of the colony,because the egrets continue to feed their young until they areshot...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...As the plumes of these birds are worth nearly their weightin gold, egrets have become extinct in some parts of the world...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...In fact, they have killed off so many ofthese lovely birds, to get feathers for rich women's hats, that to-daythere are hardly any snowy egrets left in the United States...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...It seems not unlikely also, that one of thewhite egrets may be shown as their crests are fairly conspicuous...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...As for egrets, pawpers, and such like, they are daily brought unto us from beyond the sea, as if all the fowl of our country could not suffice to satisfy our delicate appetites...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
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