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Bird Note* and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Quarterly Meeting of the Council was 

 held on April 14th, 1916, at the Middlesex 

 Guildhall, S.W., Mr. Montagu Sharpe, Chair- 

 man, presiding. There were also present : 

 Mr. Bell, Hon. Mrs. Drewitt, Miss Hall, 

 Mr. F. E. Lemon (Hon. Sec), Mrs. Lemon, 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, Miss 

 Pollock, and Captain Tailby, and the 

 Secretary (Miss Gardiner). 



Hon. Secretary's Report. 

 The Hon. Secretary reported that twelve 

 lectures had been given since March 16th, and 

 eighteen Bird-and-Tree Festivals held. Bird 

 Protection Orders had been issued for 

 Yorkshire (East Riding) and for the County 

 of Mayo, both being renewals of the previous 

 Orders. In consequence of the insufficient 

 publication of Bird Protection Orders in 

 certain counties, on the ground of war- 

 economy, the police of those counties had 

 been asked to make as full use as possible of 

 the Society's close-time posters, and a very 

 large nimaber of these had been printed and 

 issued. The local Hon. Secretaries of the 

 Society had also been asked to mitigate as far 

 as possible the effects of official frugality by 

 letting the public know, through placards and 

 posters, the existence of a law for the 

 protection of birds and a Society to 

 support it. 



Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee. 



The accounts for the quarter were pre- 

 sented. The appointment of the Rev. A. 

 Linzee Giles, Vicar of Great Malvern, as 

 Hon. Secretary for South Worcestershire 



was confirmed ; and the following Fellows 

 and Members were elected : — 



Fellows : IMrs. Arthur Allen (Ilminster) ; 

 Cecil C. Baring (Sudbury) ; Miss C. D. 

 Richards (Perthshire). 



Members : Miss Ballard (Malvern) ; Mrs. 

 Burrows (Timbridge Wells) ; Harold Coven- 

 try (New Brighton) ; A. W. Craig (Battles 

 Bridge) ; Miss Du Faur (London, W.) ; 

 Mrs. A. F. Ericcson (Newcastle-on-Tjme) ; 

 Mrs. C. M. Hudson (Bradway) ; Miss 

 Kemplay (London, W.) ; Miss E. Marston 

 (London, N.) ; Mrs. Hollingsworth^; Thomson 

 (Switzerland). 



LiEE Meimber : IVIiss Isa Postgate "(Stam- 

 ford Bridge). 



Watchers Committee. 

 The appointments of Watchers for 1916 

 were confirmed and the reports received 

 as to their work in various districts ; and 

 the preservation of rare birds in several 

 districts was specially considered. 



General Business. 



The Standing Committees were re-elected. 

 It was reported that copies of the Resolution 

 as to the Importation of Plumage, passed 

 at the Annual Meeting, had been forwarded 

 to members of the Government and others 

 whose help might be looked for. The 

 action taken by the Society with reference 

 to the exposure of song-birds for sale as food 

 during the close season, was detailed, and 

 correspondence with the firm chiefly con- 

 cerned, and with Mr. Dickinson, M.P., waa 

 read. It was agreed to take further steps 

 if necessary. Attention was drawn to an 

 advertisement of an air-gun, with picture 

 of two owls killed by the weapon ; and in 

 addition to a protest against this particular 

 case, it was agreed that action should be 

 taken to deal with the air-gun nuisance. 



Next Meeting of the Coimcil, July 21st. 



