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Victorian fascination with ornithology grew throughout the 19th century as books like John James Audubon's Birds of America became best sellers and spurned hobbies like bird watching and maintaining aviaries
the "more is better" theme of the Victorian era carried over into how jewelry was worn by royalty and the aristocracy
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