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Bird Notes and News 



Headley (Hampshire Shield) and EUesborough 

 (Bucks Shield). 



The Finance and General Purposes Committee 

 presented the statement of accounts for the 

 year 1919. Mr. K. S. Moreau was appointed 

 Hon. Sec. for Farnham (but unfortunately has 

 since had to resign, through leaving England 

 for his health). The following Fellows and 

 Members were elected : — 



Fellows : H. Baillie- Weaver ; Major A. Radclyffe 

 Dugmore, F.R.G.S. ; Lieut. -Colonel L. C. Elwes, 

 D.S.O. ; Mrs. L. C. Elwes ; Mrs. Malise Graham ; 

 Roland Green ; Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, G.C.B. ; 

 Captain H. R. Janes ; F. W. Neale ; Sydney Porter ; 

 Major W. RadclifEe-Saunders ; Mrs. Bernard Shaw ; 

 Mrs. Arthur Thompson ; James Weston. 



Members : Mrs. Fleming Baxter ; Miss Bennett ; 

 Miss M. K. Bradby ; G. T. Brodie-Smith ; Mrs. Brodie- 

 Smith ; Miss Lilian E. Brown ; Mrs. Burgess ; B. G. 

 Cain ; Miss Amy B. Crabbe ; Mrs. Crosfield ; Mrs. 

 Cruikshanks ; Mrs. Carlyle Deas ; Mrs. Trevor Davis ; 

 Mrs. J. H. Galloway ; Miss E. M. Galloway ; W. W. 

 Hallam ; Mrs. Hallward ; Miss E. C. Haydon ; Arnold 

 F. Hills ; Major-General Hordem ; Mrs. Janes ; Miss 

 M. E. F. Lange ; Miss Margaret Macnamara ; R. S. 

 Moreau ; William Newton ; R. de Rouet ; Miss N. 

 Rogers ; Ernest W. Royston ; G. L. Searight ; Misa 

 Joan Shilcock ; Mrs. Shipley ; Mrs. Startin ; James 

 Alex. Waddell, of Leadloch ; Captain S. N. Walker. 



It was agreed that a question should be 

 addressed to the Government with regard to 

 action upon the lines of the Report of the 

 Departmental Committee on Bird Protection, 

 especially urging the constitution of the Central 

 Advisory Committee, as recommended. Con- 

 siderable discussion took place relative to the 

 Plumage Trade and the Bill to prohibit Im- 

 portation ; the second list of members of tke 

 General Committee was received, and arrange- 

 ments as to lectures and publications, etc., 

 considered. Business connected with the 

 Annual Meeting was brought forward, and 

 Sir William Portal, Bart., F.S.A., was elected a 

 Vice-President of the Society. 



The correspondence reported included letters 

 with reference to a pole-trap in Kent, the 

 police replying to the complaint that it had 

 been taken down, but the person responsible 

 had been warned ; and others relating to bird- 

 catching, the formation of bird-sanctuaries, etc. 



Next meeting of the Council, April 23rd. 



PLUMAGE BILL COMMITTEE. 



Among those who have joined the General 

 Committee of the Society for the promotion of 

 legislation on the Plumage Question, since the 



last number of Bird Notes and News appeared, 

 are the following : — 



The Viscountess Rhondda, the Viscountess 

 Wolseley, the Bishop of Barking, Lord Lever- 

 hulme. Countess Christine de Linden, Lady 

 Baden-Powell, Lady Fry, Mrs. Mount Batten, 

 Mr. T. C. Beaslev, Dr. A. C. Benson (Master of 

 Magdalene College), Mr. F. C. H. Borrett, Miss 

 Marjorie Bowen, Major R. 0. Bridgeman, 

 Madame Clara Butt, Mrs. Davidson-Houston, 

 Dr. Claridge Druce. Major A. Radclyffe Dug- 

 more, F.R.G.S., Colonel L. C. Elwes, D.S.O., 

 Mrs. Elwes, Mr. T. Musgrave Francis, ]\Ir. Hugh 

 S. Gladstone, Mr. Norman Graham, Mrs. Malise 

 Graham, Mr. C. H. Grinling, Right Hon. 

 Laurence Hardy, Sir S. F. Harmer (Director, 

 Natural History Museum), Mr. J. Ramsay 

 Macdonald, Mr. F. W. Newmarch, Mr. Sydney 

 Pater, Sir William Portal, Bart., Dr. Graham 

 Renshaw (Editor of The AvicuUurist), Miss 

 Maude Roy den, Miss May Sinclair, and Miss 

 Emma Tate. 



THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE BILL. 



At a meeting of the Standing Committee of 

 the Trustees of the British Museum, on March 

 27th, it was resolved : — 



" That the Trustees of the British Museum give 

 their hearty support to the principles of the Importa- 

 tion of Plumage (Prohibition) Bill, 1920, and welcome 

 its introduction into Parliament." 



A POLE TRAP STORY. 



In seconding a resolution at a meeting in 

 support of the Plumage Bill, held at Horsham 

 on March 4th, the Macleod of Macleod (23rd 

 Chieftain) said that the Royal Society for the 

 Protection of Birds was a Society which not 

 only secured legislation, but saw to its enforce- 

 ment. As an example, he cited an incident 

 with regard to the pole trap. Legislation pro- 

 hibiting the use of this abominable instrument 

 of torture was brought about by the efforts of 

 the R.S.P.B. in 1904, and shortly after its 

 enactment, he received a letter from the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Society to say that one of 

 their emissaries had discovered a pole trap in 

 a remote corner of one of the Macleod estates 

 in Skye. Of its existence the Macleod himself 

 was unaware, and he immediately took steps 

 for its removal, and issued instructions to all 

 his keepers, to the effect that such a thing was 

 never again to be used. 



