ol. IX. No. 2. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Summer tNjimher, 1920. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Importation of Plumage Bill .., ... ... 9 



Debate on Second Reading — In Committee — The Plumage Bill and 

 Ostrich Feathers — The Threatened Extermination of Birds of Paradise. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ... 13 



Coancil Meeting — Obituary 



Notes ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 



The Government and the proposed Central Ornithological Committer— 

 Plumage-trade " demonstration " — Fiction and Fact — Jewish support to 

 the Plumage Bill-— Story of a Lapwing — The ideal Mouser. 



Economic Ornithology ... ... ... ... ... 15 



Bird and Tree Competition ... ... ... ... 16 



23. QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W.I. 



