Vol VII. No. 7. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS- 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Autumn U^mber^ ipi?- 



CONTENTS. 



Winter and the Birds . . . . . . . . 89 



Birds in the War Area . . . . , . ^o 



Random Notes from France and Belgium — Stories of 

 Swallows — Nightingales in the Balkans — ^-Kestrels 

 in Macedonia 



Economic Ornithology . . . . . . . . 93 



The Caterpillar Plague — The Bullfinch — Merlins and 

 Grouse — Birds and the War in the U.S.A. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 96 



Council Meeting — Birds at the Lighthouse — Obituary 



Spring in Devon and Cornwall . . . . - 98 



Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 



Changes in the R.S.P.B, Council — Brig.-General Page 

 Croft — Dr. Hornaday — ^The Thoreau Centenary 

 —"Robin in Khaki"— The "Extermination" 

 of Rooks and Wood Pigeons — The Board's New 

 Order 



The Plumage Trade .. .. .. .. 102 



Bird-and-Tree Challenge Shield Competition 102 



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