INDEX. 



Africa, South, Bird Protection Society, 23, 80. 

 Agriculture, Ministry of, on collecting of poulti-j- 



feathei-s. 71 ; on liver-rot in sheep, 108. 

 Agricultural Journal of India, on the Blue Jay, 92. 

 Ainsdale, egg-taking at, 48, 112, 128. 

 Aldeburgh, protected area for birds and eggs, 24. 

 Allchin, Mr. J. H., death of, 122. 

 Argyllshire Vermin Club, 9. 

 '■ Assisi, A Bird Sanctuary at," 81. 

 Astley, Mr. H. D., on Green Plover, 23. 

 Audubon Association, permanent endowment fund, 



12 ; work of, 26 ; visits of President to England, 



25, 40. 

 Australia, Plumage laws in, 109. 



Batten, Mr. Mortimer, on Owls and the rat-plague, 44. 



Bedworth Bird and Tree Team, Inter-County Shield 

 presented to, 73. 



Benson, Mr. E. F., on Sea-birds and oil, 19. 



Bird-feeding, 124. 



Bird Protection Acts, existing and proposed, 99. 



Bird Protection Orders, 24, 40, 56, 73, 88, 104, 120. 



Bird Sanctuaries, 1, 12, 28, 49, 65, 81, 106, 115; 

 in the Royal Parks, 1, 12, 39, 58. 



Bird and Tree Scheme, Special Committee. 41 ; Mr. 

 Hudson's gifts to, 24, 52 ; Lectures at Oxford. 

 46 ; at Cambridge, 111; Rev. Dr. Lyttelton on. 

 72 ; Mr. G. H. Gater (Lancashire), 15 : Mr. 

 J. S. Davis (Norfolk). 15; Mr. G. B. Brown 

 (Cumberland), 78; What Teachers say, 111; 

 Manchester Guardian quoted, 47. 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition, 15, 31, 

 46, 60, 78, 94, 110. 125. 



Bird, Which is the most beautiful British, 28. 



Birds and Food-crops, 11. 



Birds and Forestry, 38. 



Birds and Fruit. 42, 112. 



Birds and their Young. 114. 



Bird^ in Flight, 59. 



Birds, Ixical names of, 76, 93. 



Birds of Paradise, smuggling into England, 70, 75 ; 

 smuggling into U.S.A., 42 ; wearing of, in Ade- 

 laide, 108. 



Bird-catching and Bird-caging, Dr. James Ritchie 

 on, 13 ; Magistrates on, 58, 75, 79, 128 ; resolu- 

 tion at Annual Meeting of R.S.P.B. (1923), 73 ; 

 Society's protest against classes for British wild 

 birds at cage-bird shows, 114; cases in Court, 

 16, 32, 48, 64, 79. 95. 112. 128. 



Bishop, Dr. R. W. S., bequest to Watchers' Fund, 9. 



Bittern and Youn", face p. 113. 



Bitterns, shot in Norfolk, 16. 



Blaauw, Heer, on " moulted " Egret plumage, 9. 



Blinding of Song-birds, prohibited in France, 14 ; 

 ia Italy, 27. 



Blunt. .Mr. Wilfred S.. 45. 



Board of Trade and Oil Question, 17, 21 ; Plumage 

 Advisory Commit ee. -sec Plumage. 



Boll-weevil and cotton crop, 11, 13. 



Books received, 30, 59, 76, 117. 



Bookman's Journal, 52. 59. 



Borrett, Mr. F. C. H., on fruit-growers and birds. 85. 



British Ornithologists' Union and egg-collecting, 

 3, 25, 28. 



Brittain, Sir Hany, M.P., Bird Protection Bill. 8. 



Brown, Mr. G. B. (Director of Education, Cumber- 

 land), on Bird and Tree-work, 78. 



Bullfinch, in defence of the, 69. 85. 



Burroughs, John, memorial to, 13. 



Bustards, shooting of, from aeroplanes. 75. 



Buxton, Earl, and egg-collectors, 3, 25 ; on eating 

 of Skylarks, 123. 



Buzzards killed as " vermin," 9. 



Caging of Wild Birds, 44, 75, 79, 95, 114. ^S'ct In the 

 Courts. 



Cage-Bird Shows, Duchess of Portland and, 8 : reso- 

 lution at Society's Annual Meeting, 73 ; protest 

 of the Society, 114. 



Carrier Pigeons, war memorial to, 75 ; alleged destruc- 

 tion by Peregrine Falcons, 97, 98, 107. 



Caton, Rev. R. B., on early Swallows (1922), 14. 



Cawston, Mr. Edwin, 29. 



" Cheviot " on the Little Owl, 22 ; on Protection of the 

 Green Plover, 23. 



Chough, in Cornwall, 50 ; Eggs protected in Pembroke- 

 shire. 120. 



Cinema, use of, for educational pui-poses. 87. 



Coastguard, H.M., and Bird Protection, 51. 



Coate Reservoir, 28. 



Coates, Mr. H., Life of C. Macintosh, 76. 



Cockbum. Sir J., on Trees as war memorials, 13. 



Cole, Mr. F. V., and Bird and Tree-work. 111. 



Collinge, Dr. W. E., on food of Bam and Little Owl?, 

 21 ; utility of Skylark. 10 ; birds in relation to 

 food production, 1 1. 



'■ Commercial Romance, A," 29. 



Compton Art Gallerj', 75. 



Convictions in the Courts. See In the Courts. 



Cotton-crop and the Egret, 73. 



Coward, T. A., on protection of Peregrine Falcon, 98 ; 

 on the eating of Skylarks, 124 ; Birds and their 

 Young, 119. 



Crewe, Marquess of, on the future of niral England, 1. 



Cumberland. Director of Education on Bird and Tree 

 Scheme, 78. 



Davis, Mr. J. S. (Norfolk Education Secretary), on 

 Bird and Tree Scheiue, 15 ; dsrivation of ' Pick- 

 cheMe," 14. 



