TABLE OF CONTENTS.— VOLUME X. 



1922. 



SPRING NUMBER, 1922. 



Bird Sanctuaries 



B. O. U. and the Egg-Collector . . 



The Keeper and the Kestrels 



The Trade in Birds' Plumage 



The Plumage Act — What the Act does. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . , 



Annual Meeting — Council Meeting — Argyllshire 

 Vermin Club — Protection of Lark3. 



Economic Ornithology 



Birds, Insects, and Crops — Canon Wood on the 

 House-Sparrow. 



Notes . . 



Permanent Bird Protection Fund — Dr. Ritchie on 

 Bird-catching— Groves as War Memorials— The 

 Egret and the Cotton Crop — Birds as Disease- 

 carriers — The Park Sanctuaries. 



From Correspondents 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Com])etition . 



In the Courts 



SUMMER NUMBER, 1922. 



Oil on the Water 



Economic Ornithology 



The Bam Owl— The Little Owl— Protection of the 

 Plover — Bird Protection in S. Africa. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



Council Meeting — Wild Birds' Eggs. 

 Visit of Mr. Gilbert Pearson 



Notes 



The Plumage Trade . . 



Importance of Plumage — A Commercial Komanee. 

 Books Received 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition 

 Tlie Sparrow Club 

 lu the Courts . . 



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AUTUMN NUMBER, 1922. 



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Mr. W. H. Hudson (Jrom a Photograph). 



Mr. W. H. Hudson 33 



English Woodlands and Modem Forestry . . 38 



London's Bird Sanctuaries . . . . . . . . 3'J 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 40 



Council Meeting — Obituary : Canon Vaughan ; 

 Mrs. Owen Visger — Woman's Exhibition. 



The Plumage Trade 42 



Economic Omithologj- . . . . . . . . 43 



Farmers and Bird-catchers — Fruit-blossoms and 

 Birds— The Rat War. 



Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition . . 46 

 Lectures at Oxford — Competition Notices. 



In the Courts. . 48 



WINTER NUMBER, 1922. 



A Kite Tree in Wales. 



Watchers and Watching . . 

 Britain's Rare Birds. 



The late Mr. W. H. Hudson 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 

 Council Meeting — Obituary. 



Notes . . 



Books Received 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



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