CONTENTS, 



1917. 



Ho. 8.— SPRING NUMBER, Hareh, 1917. 



No. 7.— AUTUMN NUMBER, September, 1917. 



France and her Birds. 



Food-Crops and Birds 

 Economic Ornithology 



The Skylark. 



Bird-Life at Aston Bx>want. 



Birds in the War Area . . . - 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



PAGB 



57 

 68 



Annual Meeting. 

 Bird-Protection in 

 tralia. 



Aus- 



Coun<^'l Meeting 

 Bird-Protection in Bussia . 



The Plumage Trade 



Salmon-Flies and Bate Birds' Feathers. 



Notes 



Dorset Birds 



Bird-and-Tree Competition - - - - 



No. 6 —SUMMER NUMBER, Jane, 1917. 



The Board and the Birds - - - . 

 Sparrow Clubs ...... 



Birds in the War Area - - . . 



The Breeding Range of Birds . . . 

 Wild Life Protection in Russia ... 

 In an English Reserve ... 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



Council Meeting. 

 The Destruction of Birds .... 



Notes - - - - ... 



A Pigeon Story ..--.. 

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



Birds, Insects and Crops . . . . 



In the Courts ...... 



61 



64 



67 



69 

 70 

 71 



73 

 75 

 76 



78 

 79 



7P 



80 



81 

 84 

 86 



86 

 87 



Winter and the Birds 

 Birds in the War Area 

 Economic Ornithology 



The Caterpillar Plague. 

 Merlins and Qroose. 



PAOB 



89 

 90 

 93 



The Bullfinch. 

 Birds and the War in the 

 U.S.A. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 96 



Council Meeting. Birds at the Lighthonae. 



Spring in Devon and Cornwall - - - 98 



Notes 100 



Brig.-Qeneral Page Croft. 

 Dr. Homaday. 



Changes in the E.S.P.B. 



Council. 

 The Thoreau Centenary. 



The Plumage Trade .... 

 Bird and-Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



102 

 102 



No. 8.— WINTER NUMBER, December, 1917. 



Bird Life and War's Alarums 

 Birds in the War Area 

 The Plumage Trade 

 ^otes . - - - - 



105 

 107 

 109 

 110 



The Dearth of Birds. 

 Trees, Hedges, and 



Farmer. 

 Kestrel and Cat. 



Winter Feeding, 

 the Le«sons fn.m France. 



A Kestrel in the East-End. 

 "A Buyer of Anything 

 Bare." 



Gold Medal. 



Leaflet Fund. 



" Christinas in the Lines." 



The Royal -iofiety for the Protection of Birds 112 



Council Meetings. 

 01 ituary. 

 Greeting Card 



Economic O riithology 



Tlie Scarcity of Birds. 

 The War-Farmer's Ally. 



Bird-and-Tree Challenge Shield Competition 118 



115 



" SparrovT Clubs " and their 

 Effects- 



