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Bird Notes and News 



"As a farmer and a Parish Councillor 

 I shall be very glad to distribute 100 of 

 your leaflets." 



" Please send me 600 to circulate with 

 my Parish Magazine. It is just what is 

 wanted." 



" Hope the leaflet may stop the uncalled 

 for shout just now of ' Kill everything ' " 



" After thirty years' residence in villages 

 in three counties, I rejoice at your letter 

 in the Chronicle." 



" Information of this kind is greatly 

 needed in this \dllage, where birds are looked 

 on as enemies." 



" I gave one of the leaflets to my gardener, 

 who was much interested and begged for 

 six more which he said he could place well. 

 It is important just now to show/acte." 



" The head teacher of the school here is 

 going to read the paper to the scholars, 

 and I hope all other teachers will do the 

 same." 



" To me as a bird-lover the spring is 

 rendered horrible by the daily barbarisms 

 committed in every hedgercw. Only last 

 year a robin's nest was found, and the 

 nesthngs had been killed by being stuck 

 with pins." 



IN THE COURTS. 



The Bird-Fanciers' " Aviary." — At 

 Southport, on April 30th, William Wright, a 

 fisherman, was fined 40s. and costs for 

 cruelty to Larks and Blackbirds. The 

 birds were kept in a sjjecies of aviary, 

 improperly fed, and in a horrible state of 

 filth. There were sixty-one bodies of dead 

 birds on the floor. 



Teaching Birds to Sing. — At Dojicaster, 

 on March 24th, Walter Worrals, a miner, 

 was charged with having a Kestrel, newly 

 taken, in his possession. Defendant was 

 ont with five decoy birds, pegs, and lime for 

 catching birds, and the kestrel had its wings 

 fastened and appeared to be in great pain. 

 He said he trained birds for singing-contests 

 by taking the cages out where wild birds 

 were singing, and that the kestrel came for 

 them, so that he knocked it over to protect 

 them. The Chairman asked if bird-lime 

 was required to teach birds to sing. Let 

 off with the payment of costs. 



Birdcatching. — At Kingston-on-Thames, 

 on May 24th, George Johnson, of Bethnal 

 Green, and Joseph Baker, of Shorediteh, 

 were fined 10s. each for using lime and call- 

 birds at Walton. They had twenty-four 

 Chaffinches in a small cage, three of them 

 dead. Decoys and apparatus were con- 

 fiscated, though one man pleaded that his 

 bird was worth £3 to him. Fred. Buck, of 

 Shorediteh, and Abel Staples, of Kingsland 

 Road, were also fined 10s. each, and their 

 apparatus confiscated. They said they were 

 only having a bit of sport. 



Killing a Wild Duck. — At Epping, on 

 June 1st, Wm. Samuel, of Nazeing, was 

 fined 5s., for killing a Mallard, He was on 

 Nazeing Common with a lurcher dog, and 

 had the bird concealed under his coat. 



Feeding the Birds. — At Woking, on 

 June 9th, Sophia Stuart, an elderly woman, 

 was fined £2 for giving bread to wild birds. 

 IMrs. Stuart, who said she was an American, 

 and had lost her only son in Mesopotamia, 

 stated that all she used was the dirty bottom 

 crusts she could not eat. She had fed the 

 fed the birds for seventy years and should 

 continue to do so. 



Save the tood-crops. 



Save our Bird Allies. 



BIRDS, INSECTS & CROPS : 



A War-time Leaflet for all Growers 

 of the Nation's Food Supplies. 



Write for copies to the Secretary, Royal Society 

 for the Protection of Birds, 23, Queen Anne's Gate, 

 S.W. L 



Also published by the Society : "OUR ALLY 

 THE BIRD," Illustrated Leaflet, 9d. per dozen ; 

 " FARM, GARDEN, AND BIRDS '" : How to 

 protects crops without destruction of Bird-life ; 

 price Sixpence. 



BiKD Notes and News (issued quarterly) will 

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 payable in advance ; single numbers, 3d. 



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 upwards per annum it is forwarded gratia and post 

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Printed by Withekby & Co., 326, High Holborn, W.C.I., and 

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