Vol. V. 



No. 2. 



BIRD NOTES 

 AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OR BIRDS; 



Summer U^mber^ 191 2. 



CONTENTS. 



The R.S.P.B. Exhibit at the Royal Horticultural 

 Show, Chelsea, 1912 . . . . Frontispece 



"Farm, .Garden, and. Birds ". . 

 Economic Ornithology .. .. 



Is, the Gull Economically Useful ?— SiX; Friend.- 

 of^the Trees-— A I>cgend of St. Druon. 



Bird Protection in Switzerland 

 » 



Bird P|-dtection in Holland . . 



The Roy ^1 Society far the Protection of Birds 



Council Meeling-^The Caging of Birds — Inter- 

 national Horticultural Exhibition— The Use of 

 Traps— The New Forest — Bird-Protection Orders. 



The Plume-Trade 

 Notes . . 

 Books Received 

 Bird-and-Tree (Arbc^r) Day 

 In the Courts . . 



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