INDEX. 



Disease, Birds as carriers of, 13. 

 Dorset, Gorse- burning in close time, 92. 

 Dover Cage-Bird Society. 114. 

 Drapers' Record and the Plumage Act, 7-1. 

 Duke of Portland, The, and Jays, 67. 

 Dundee Advertiser on egg-collecting, 26. 

 Dungeness, birds of. 5(). 



Economic Ornithology, 11. 21, 41, 69, So, 109. 

 Egg-collectors and tgg-colleeting. Earl Buxtou on, 



3 ; Mr. W. P. Pycraft, 4 ; Times correspondence 



and leading article, 25. 

 Eggs, of Lapwing, 85, 102 ; of Kite and Peregrine 



withdrawn from sale, 13. 

 Egret, plumage, 7 ; '" moulted " feathers, 9 ; and the 



Boll-weevil, 13. 

 Egypt, Oil nuisance in, 68. 

 "Egyptian Sanctuary, An,'' 115. 

 Epping, Bird Protection in, 105. 



Earmei's and Bird catchers, 43. 



Fame Islands, 73. 



Feeding the birds, 124. 



Finland, new Protection laws, 87. 



Foot-and-mouth disease, attributed to birds, 13. 



Ford, Mrs. H. C, on Bird Protection Posters, 14. 



Forestry, modern and wild life, 38. 



Forestry Commission, 38, 39. 



France, blinding of song-birds prohibited, 44 ; destruc- 

 tion of Swallows, 83 ; Nature- Protection 

 Congress, 90. 



Francis, St., preaching to the birds, face p. 81. 



Fruit-growers and birds, 43, 85. 



Fruit, Floiver, and Vegetable Trade Journal, on Sparrow 

 clubs, 31. 



Fulmar Petrel at Bempton, 28 ; protection of eggs, 73. 



Furse, J., R.N., on bird-feeding, 124. 



" Gall^'-bu'd," Derivation of, 76, 93. 



Gamekeeper and Kestrels, 4. 



Garstang, Professor W., " Songs of the Birds," 30. 



Gater, Mr. G. H. (Director of Education, Lancashire), 



on Bud and Tree Scheme, 15. 

 Gamett, Mr. Edward, Letters from W. H. Hudson, 118. 

 " G.B." on the Little Owl, 22. 

 Girl Guides, proposed Challenge Shield for, 94. 

 Giza Zoological Gardens, 115. 

 Gorse-burning in Spring-time, 72, 93. 

 Gosse, Dr. Philip, " An Impression of W. H. 



Hudson," 52. 

 Great Orme's Head, Peregrine Falcons of, 97, 107. 

 Green, Mr. Roland, Birds and their Young, 119; 



Birds ill Flight, 59. 

 Grev of Fallodon, Viscount, introduces Bird Protection 

 'Bill m House of Lords (1923), 99; present at 



conference at R.S.P.B. office, 121. 



Hawksley, Mr. Leonard, elected an Hon. Fellow of the 



R.S.P.B., 27. 

 Hedgerows, the war on, 14. 

 Herons, destruction of, in Staffordshire, 41 ; further 



protection for, 88 ; A-Vaterton on services of, 65. 

 Hermaness, Watchers' hut on, 45. 

 Hind in Richmond Park, A, 55. 

 Home Office Advisory Committee on Bird Protection, 



99. 

 Hon. Local Secretaries of the Societv, appointment of, 



9, 24 40, 73, 88, 120. 



Hovnaday, Dr. W. T., on the status of Heath-Hen and 

 Quail, 107. 



Huddersfield Examiner, quoted, 109. 



Hudson, W. H., Portrait of, face p. 33. 



Hudson, W. H., on Bird-life in London Parks, 1 ; 

 donation to Bird and Tree Funds, 24 ; death and 

 memoir, 33 ; .4 Hind in Richmond Park, 55 ; 

 bequest to R.S.P.B., 52 ; Memorial to, 53, 56, 74 ; 

 Bibliography of his works, 59 ; portrait presented 

 to National Portrait Gallery, 54, 74 ; Memorial 

 in Easton Park, 82 ; Memorial cross in Broadwater 

 Cemetery, 105 ; Cornish Memorial, 121 ; " An 

 impression of," (Dr. Philip Gosse), 52 ; Rare, 

 Vanishing, and Lost British Birds, 105, 117 ; 

 Letters from W. H. Hudson, 118. 



Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act, provisions 



of, 5, 91 ; alterations in schedule, 10, 29, 108, 117 ; 



Earl Buxton appointed chairman of Advisory 



Committee, 105 ; prosecutions under the Act, 



70, 74, 116. 

 India, importation of plumage from, 116 ; value of 



Blue Jay in, 92. 

 International Nature-Protection Congress in Paris, 



90 ; Committee proposed, 122. 

 International Committee for Protection of Birds, 27, 



91. 

 In the Courts, 16, 32, 48, 64, 79, 95, 112, 128. 

 Italy and her wild birds, 86, 93 ; Bird Sanctuary at 



Assist, 81 ; new Bird Protection law, 86. 



Jays and game-eggs, 67. 



Johnson Mr. T., H.M.I., lectures on bird-study, 46, 111. 



Kestrels and Keeper, 4. 



King, Mr. Bolton (Director of Education for Warwick- 

 shire), at Bedworth Bird and Tree Festival, 78. 



Kite Tree in Wales, A., face p. 49 ; eggs withdrawn from 

 sale at Stevens's, 13 ; protection of, 50. 



Lefroy, Professor Maxwell, on ravages of insect 



pests, 11. 

 Legacies to the Society, 9, 24, 40, 52, 56, 88, 104, 120. 

 Lighthouses, bird-rests at, 45, 50. 

 Lilford, Lord, on protection of the Peregrine, 98. 

 Liverpool, Bird Protection notices in parks, 28 ; 



Bird Protection Order, 58. 

 Lock, Miss H. E., on utility of the Skylark, 10. 

 London Bird Sanctuaries, 1, 39, 58, 65, 106, 

 Lorebum, Earl, death of, 122. 



Macintosh, Charles, the Peiihshire naturalist, 76. 

 Maitland, Mrs. Fuller, " Small Bird Sanctuaries," 66 ; 



"The Bird's Epitaph," 124. 

 Manchester Guardian, on Bird and Tree Scheme, 47. 

 Man, Isle of, Gorse-buming in Maj', 93. 

 Martins' nests destroyed at Keswick, 45, 48. 

 Marabou, what is it ? 108. 

 Masefield, Mr. J. R. B., lecture at Oxford Teachers' 



Couroe, 46 ; obtains protection for Herons in 



Staffordshire, 88. 

 Meade-Waldo, Mr. E. G. B., on protection of tlie 



Peregrine, 98. 

 Metropolitan Water Board and Bird Sanctuaries, 



67, 106. 

 IMitehell, Rev. A. M., on persecution of the Bullfinch, 



85. 

 Moor-buniing in close time, 74, 92. 



