“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

Models of rider and great horse, the latter on wheels, are correctly harnessed and trappered, […] The puppet was modern, but the harness was complete except for the housings, saddle, rest of advantage, and parts of the poldermitton and manefer. There is a second harness in the Museum at Munich (No. xvii.).

Here, therefore, we seek to assemble and assess the evidence to provide an overview of how serious trade is as an existential threat to avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia.

Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.