plume-tuft

Updated: June 13, 2025

Then the cruel hunters tear off the plume-tuft from the back of each victim, as the savage does a human scalp, and move on in search of another heronry, to repeat this inhuman slaughter of the innocents. "But this is not all what becomes of the young birds?

Elliott Coues - Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners