OOSrBNTS. 



192S. 



SPRING NUMBER, 1028. 



Whtnchat {PhoUfgraph) 



More about Bird Sanctuariofl 



The Duke and the Jays . . 



Oil on the Waters . . 



The Tragedy of Orj-le. 



Economic Ornithology 



The Trade in Birds' Plumaae 



Smuggling Paradise Plumes — ProWbitlon in Singa- 

 pore — Market for Poultry Feathers. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . , 



Annual Mreting — Council Meeting — Th« Hudson 

 Memorial. 



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Notes . . 



Smuggled Phimnge — What the Egg Boxes held — 

 Small Cages — Shooting from Aeroplanes — The 

 Compton Potteriea — The Qally-blrd. 



From Correspondents 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition . . 



In the Courts 79 



SUMMER NUMBER, 1923. 



St. Francis and ih« Birds. 



A Bird Sanctuary at Assiai . . 



The Swallows 



Economic Ornithology 



The Lapwing— The Bullfinch— To Save the Prult 



Not'es . . 



Prosecution? iindf-r th'; Protection Acts — In South 

 Africa— Two Pictures from Italy— New Italian 

 Law — Lord Rothschild and Poland — Pole-trap 

 suppressed in Finland — The Cinema — The 

 Photographer and the Birds. 



The Royal Society for the Protootion of Birds . , 



Council Meeting. 

 International Nature-Protection Congress 



The Work of the Bird 'Section. 



International Committee for Protection of Birds 91 



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The Plumage Trade . . 



Moor-Buming in Close Time 



From Correspondents 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shiald Competition 



In the Courts 



AUTUMN NUMBER, 1928. 



Young Peregrine Falcon {Phohgraph). 

 The Falcons of Great Orme's Head . . 



The Protection of the Peregrine, by Lord Lilford, 

 Mr. Ofdlvie-Grant, Mr. Meade- Waldo, and Mr. 

 T. A. Coward. 



The Wild Birds Protection Bill 



The Existing Act« and the new Bill — How the Acts 

 have been utilised. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . 



Co^mcil Meeting — The late Mr. W. H. Hudson. 



Reservoirs as Bird Sanctuaries . . 



The Pole-Trap 



Notes . . 



Peregrines and Pigeons — The fate of the Heath 

 Hen — Sparrows of Newcastle Cathedral — 

 Utility of the Lapwing. 



The Plumage Trade 



Economic Ornithology 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



What Teachers say — Rural Science in Schools — 

 Roadside Tree Planting. 



In the Courts . . 



WINTER NUMBER, 192S. 



Bittern and Young. 



The late Mrs. Suckling 



Caged-Bird Shows . . 



An Egyptian Sanctuary 



The Plumage Trade 



FA«E 



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Buyers and Sellers — Illegal Importation — Plumage 

 Order. 



Books Received 



Rare, Vanishing atid Lost BrUish Birds — Leiien 

 from, W. E. Hudson — Birds and their Young 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



Council Meetings — Cornish Memorial to Mr. Hudson 

 —Obituary— Protection of Wild Life— The 

 Bating of Skylarks. 



Bird-Feeding . . 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



Award of Inter-County and County Shields. 



In the Courts 



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