Vol. Vn. No. 2. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Summer S^mher^ > 1 9 1 6. 



CONTENTS. 



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The, Bird as a Flying Machijie ... ... 9 



Economic Ornithology ... ... 12 



Food of the Rook, Starling, and ChatTmch. 



Birds in the War. ^re^ ••• - ••• H 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birdi 16 



Council Meeting — Obituary—Scine-Birds as Food. 



The plume, Trade' ... ... ... H) 



England and tKe Importation of Plumage—^Smijgglin l' 

 V in \the United States — ^Plume-trade l^xhibits in a 



National Museum — 'Illegal Trading in India. 



Notes ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 



Help at the Huts — ^The Beginnings of Flight-n-The 

 B.'irn Owl— Owls and Rat^ — Poisonous Weed-killer 

 ,— The Bee and the Tit. 



" lit a Cheshire Garden " ... 22 



Bird-and-Tree (Arbor Dav^i Competitions ... 23 

 In the Courts . . ... 24 



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