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No. 5. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY raife IsbYA^ 



FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Spring O^mber^ ^ 9 ^ 3 • 



CONTENTS. 



Earl Curzon of Keplest6n 



. . Frontispiece 



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Birds at the Lighthouse . . . . 65 



The Plume-Trade . ..... . . . . Sj 



TKe Heron and the Plume-Trade. 



" Our Vanishing Wild Life '\ . .. .. 69 

 Notes .. .. .. 70 



Sir Herbert Maxwell and the Collectors — The 

 Importation of Cage-birds-*- Bird Watching — 

 The Tit and the Nuthatch. > 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 72 



l Annual Meeting — Council Meetings — ^The Collec- 

 toi'-^Public Schools Essay Competition — Ailsa 

 Craig— The late Dr. E. A. Wilson— Bird-Protec- 

 tion in Australia — Bird -Protect ion in Egypt. 



Economic Ornithology •• •• •♦ .. 7S 



The Economic Status of the Hei:on^The Case for 

 the Gull. 



Bird-and-Tree (Arbor) Day , . . . . . yj 



Challenge Shield .Competitions — 'Bird-and-Tree 

 Festivals. , ',\ 



The Press arid Bird-Protection . . 79 



In the Courts . . . . . . . . . . So 



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