Bird Notes and News 



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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals. 



£5 5s, : — Hon. Charles Rothschild. 



£5 : — Anonymous ; Thos. Baring, Esq. ; 

 Lord Boston ; Miss Chichester ; Sir Wm. 

 Portal, Bt. 



£3 3s. :— E. L. Holland, Esq. ; Mrs. Fuller 

 Maitland ; Mrs. E. Phillips. 



£3 : — ^airs. Johnston ; Miss A. M. Jeaf- 

 freson ; Miss E. Shadwell. 



£2 10s. :— Miss F. Cochrane. 



£2 2s. :— C. S. Cockbum, Esq. ; Mrs. 

 Coppinger ; Mrs. Melvill ; Miss E. H. 

 Melvill ; Albert Pam, Esq. ; Montagu 

 Sharpe, Esq. ; Her Grace the Duchess of 

 Somerset ; E. J. Stephens, Esq. ; Mrs, 

 R. W. Williamson. 



£2 : — H. F. Buxton, Esq. ; Miss Mortimore ; 

 Laurence Page, Esq. ; J. E. Pearson, Esq. ; 

 Mrs. E. Urban Smith ; Lady Laura Ridding. 



£1 10s. :— Miss A, E. Sellon ; Mrs. Smith 

 Wright. 



£1 Is.:— lilrs. Arthur Allen ; IVIrs. F. W. 

 Ashley ; Frank C. H, Borrett, Esq. ; 

 Mrs. Stratton Boulnois ; Miss Byas ; IVIrs. 

 Close ; Russell Coombe, Esq. ; D. Davidson, 

 Esq. ; Mrs. F. Dawson ; F. D. Drewitt, Esq. ; 

 The Viscountess Gahvay ; Miss M. B, 

 GamJin ; H. J. Hill, Esq. ; T. B. Jeffreys, 

 Esq. ; Miss Kemplay ; A. Holte Macpherson, 

 Esq. ; Mrs. Edward Maitland ; Mrs. Massey ; 

 Miss M. Molesworth ; Rt. Hon. Lord 

 Moulton ; Norfolk and Norwich Branch 

 R.S.P.C.A. ; Christopher Nugent, Esq. ; The 

 Misses Sibly ; JMiss Helen Stewart ; Miss 

 Underwood ; Miss E. M. Williams ; INIrs. 

 J. B. Williams. 



£1 : — H. E. Addison, Esq. ; J. A. Barlow, 

 Esq. ; J. E. Bellows, Esq. ; Dr. W. A. Carline ; 

 J. F. Camell, Esq. ; Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Chitty ; 

 The Misses Christian ; F. H. Duffield, Esq. ; 

 Miss Ferguson ; Lady Fullerton ; Sir Wm. 

 Graham Greene ; Miss E. A. Harwood ; Mrs. 

 Horsfall ; Sir H. Seton Kerr ; Miss V. E. 

 Gates ; Mrs. M. E. Sadler ; Mrs. Summers ; 

 Miss H. E. "V^liitaker. 



14s. : — ^Miss M. Kleinwart. 



10s. 6d. :— Rev. James Cross ; T. R. 

 Gleghorn, Esq. ; Philip Gosse, Esq; Professor 

 G. T, H. Lloyd. 



10s. : — ^Lady Allchin ; Anon (Twickenham) ; 

 Ohas. A. Keith Falconer, Esq. ; Miss Eva 

 Freshfield ; Miss M. B. Greenwood ; Mrs. 

 Gregory ; W. A. Harford, Esq. ; Miss L. E. 

 Lambart ; Mrs. Blundell Martino ; Mrs. 



Mozley ; Mrs. Parson ; W. Stanley Peach, 

 Esq. ; Miss E. Roscrow ; Mrs. Sellon ; Mrs. 



F. S. Stevenson ; Mrs. Sturge ; IVIrs. H. S. 

 Tunnard. 



5s. 6d. : — Bernard N. Temperley, Esq. 



5s. : — A Friend at Brighton ; C. M. Arm- 

 strong, Esq. ; Miss E. Evelyn Armstrong ; 

 Mrs. Cecil Bagshaw ; Miss V. M. Bagshaw ; 

 Mrs. Beadnell ; IVIiss E. M. BrowTie ; Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. J. Cash ; A. Craig, Esq. ; George Cope, 

 Esq. ; Miss Cox ; Miss Mabel Dawney ; 

 Lt.-Col. Duthie ; Lawrence B. Faraday, Esq. ; 



G. K. ; B. S. Hawkins, Esq. ; Mrs. Holmes ; 

 H. G. ; Miss D. F. Jackson ; Mrs. Leggett ; 

 The Misses Lock ; Mrs. Meynell ; J. W. 

 McLellan, Esq. ; Mrs. E. Millward ; Mr. and 

 Mrs. Nicholson ; Capt. and Mrs. Palliser ; Miss 

 Palliser ; Miss Octavia Paterson ; Miss Pres- 

 ton ; W. R. Reynolds, Esq. ; C. B. Rickett, 

 Esq. ; Miss M. A. Sheffield ; Miss Helen Smith ; 

 Miss Snow ; Col. C. Spottiswoode ; Capt. 

 E. A. Thomas ; Mrs. Vaudrey ; Alfred ^Vhite, 

 Esq. ; Mrs. Woolner ; Miss Edith Wilhamson. 



4s. : — ^The Misses Churton ; Miss Douglas 

 Douglas ; Mr. and Miss Roscoe. 



3s. : — A. Friend ; Karin de Beaufort ; The 

 Misses Coleridge, 



2s 6d. :— Miss Chute , The Misses Cobb ; 

 Arthur S. Cutbill, Esq. ; Miss E. M. Elias ; 

 Miss H. M. England ; Mrs. Forster ; Lady 

 Jenkyns ; R. Jones, Esq. ; Mrs. Manders ; 

 A. McAnally, Esq. ; Miss K. Patten ; Mrs. 

 A. W. Rickman ; Miss Russ ; Miss A. IVI. 

 Smallpeice ; IVIiss H. Melville Smith ; E. M. 

 Brooke Taylor, Esq. ; E. A. Weaver, Esq. ; 

 Owen Wynn, Esq. 



Amounts under 2s. 6d. : — £1 Os. 6d. 



OBITUARY. 



By the death of the Poet Laureate, Mr. 

 Alfred Austin, which occurred on 

 June 2nd, the Society has lost a Vice- 

 President whose feeling for birds seemed 

 a natural outcome, and part of, his love of 

 nature and his poetic instincts. Speaking 

 at the Society's annual meeting in 1905, 

 he alluded to the birds as " their own 

 advocates," whose musical arguments 

 scarce anyone could resist, and made a 

 special plea for efforts to win the British 

 boy from nest-robbing. In the following 

 verses, written for one of the Society's 



