From Gregory Sams
I was amused to see the following strange comment appear in your article on the threatened bird of paradise (15 May, p 46): “Their heyday was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when thousands of the birds were slaughtered and their plumes shipped west on the new tea clippers, destined to decorate the hats of Victorian ladies.”
Presumably the heyday of the American bison arrived with the railway, and that of the cod with their rise to popularity in fish and chip shops across the UK.
London, UK
