INDEX. 



" More about Bird Sanctuaries," 86. 

 ilorean, Mr. R, E., " The Tragedy of Ceryle," 68. 

 MoBley, Mr. Oswald, on birds and ineect-life, 109. 

 Municipal Bird Sanctuaries, 66 ; plea for, by R.S.P.B., 

 82. 



" Natureland," 45, 76, 89, 119. 

 Nest made of confetti, 93 ; of wire, 128. 

 Newcastle Cathedral, House Sparrows of, 107. 

 Northcote, Rev. H., on modem forestry and wild -life, 



38 ; on the war on the hedgerows, 14. 

 Notes, 12, 27, 44, 58, 74, 86, 107. 



Obituary notices: J. H. Allchin, 122; Miss E. S. 



Anderson, 8 ; Wilfred Scawen Blunt, 45 ; J. H. 



Gumey, 57 ; Hon. Mrs. Henniker, 74, 88 ; W. H. 



Hudson, 33, 52 ; Lord Lorebum, 122 ; Rev. D. 



Edraondes Owen, 50. 57 ; Mrs. Irene Osgood, 57 ; 



Miss E. Spender, 24 ; Captain Suckling, R. N., 



24; Mrs. Florence Suckling, 113 ; A. B. Trevor- 



Battye, 57 ; W. B. Urwin, 104 ; Mrs. Owen 



Visger, 41 ; Rev. Canon Vaughan, 41 ; Miss G. 



Wolfe, 104 ; Rev. Theodore Wood, 122. 

 Observer, " What the new Plumage Act does," 6. 

 Ogilvie -Grant, Mr. W. R., on the protection of the 



Peregrine, 98. 

 Oldham Chronicle, quoted, 110. 

 Oil (refuse) on the water, 17, 44, 51, 68, 74 ; Oil in 



Navigable Waters Bill, 18, 44 ; resolution at 



International Nature Protection Congress (1923), 



90. 

 Oological Club and egg-collecting, 3. 

 Ostricli -farming in California, 29. 

 Owl, Bam, Dr. CoUinge on utility of, 21. 

 Owl, Little, economic position of, 21. 

 Owls and the rat-plague, 44. 

 Oxford, Rural Science course for Teachers (1922), 46. 



Parliamentary Bills and questions : Oil in navigable 

 Waters, 17, 21 ; Naval regulations re Oil, 18 ; 

 decrease of the Lapwing, 23, 85 ; Roadside 

 tree-planting, 110. 



Paterson, A. H., on Starlings in Norfolk, 76 ; on the 

 oil nuisance, 20. 



Pearson, Mr. Gilbert, visits to England, 26, 40. 



Peregrine Falcon, young, face p. 97. 



Peregrine Falcons shot as Wood-pigeons, 29, 32 ; 

 taken at Great Onne's Head, 97, 107 ; protection 

 of, 98. 



Performing Animals Bill, 29. 



Pertz, Miss A. J., on destruction of birds in Italy. 83. 



Penrose, Dr. F. G., 78. 



Photographers and wild birds, 87. 



" Pick-cheese " (Blue Tit), derivation of name, 14, 



Plover, Green, protection of, 23 ; exposure for sale, 

 79 ; taking eggs of, 85. 



Pipit, Tree, exhibit of eggs of, 26, 



Plumage, Importation of (prohibition) Act, text, 5 ; 

 Board of Trade Advisory Committee, 105 ; altera- 

 tions of Schedule, 10, 29, 108, 117, 



Plumage Trade, 5, 29, 42, 70, 91, 108, 116; retail 

 dealers and the Act. 91, 116 ; plumage smuggled 

 into England, 70, 74, 116 ; prohibition in Singa- 

 pore, 7 ; Blue Jay or Roller, 92 ; in the United 

 States, 42 ; market for poultry feathers, 71, 



Poland, Lord Rothschild on bird-destmction in, 87. 



Pole-trap, use in Scotland, 106 ; prohibited in 

 Finland, 87. 



Portland, Duchess of, and cage-bird shows, 8 ; on eating 



of Skylarks, 123. 

 Portland, Duke of, and Shooting of Jays, 67, 

 Posters, Bird Protection, 14, 2S, 

 Prosecutions under W.B.P, Acts, See In the Courts, 

 Pycraft, W. P., Birds in Flight, 31 ; on egg-coUeoting, 



4. 



Quail, in danger in U.S.A., 107. 



Rare Birds, protection of, by Watchers' Committee, 

 49, 89, 105, 121 ; persecution by " naturalists," 

 89; "The man with a gun," 29, 32; egg- 

 taking, 25. 



Bare, Vanishing, and Lost British Birds, 105, 117. 



Rat-plague and wild birds, 109, 



Reading Corporation and suggested Bird Sanctuarj', 67. 



Reservoirs as Bird Sanctuaries, 67, 106. 



Reviews of Books, 30, 59, 117. 



Ritchie, Dr. James, on Bird-catching, 13. 



Roadside tree-planting, 110, 



Robin stories, 77. 



Romer, Sir Mark L., elected vice-president of R,S,P,B., 

 41. 



Rook, investigation into food of, 120. 



Rothschild, Lord, on incitement to bird-destruction in 

 Poland, 87. 



Royal Parks, Bird Sanctuaries in, 1, 12, 39, 58; 

 " Hudson Sanctuary," 54. 



Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Annual 

 Meetings, 8, 72 ; Council Meetings. 8, 24, 40, 50, 



73, 88, 104, 120 ; amendment of Charter, 40 ; 

 stand at Women's Exhibition (1922), 41 ; removal 

 to 82, Victoria Street, 72 ; Sir Montagu Sharpe 

 on the Wireless, 89 ; Conference on Wild Birds 

 Protection Bill, 121 ; prosecution at Llandudno. 

 97 ; efforts for protection of Walthamstow reser- 

 voir, 106 ; protest in regard to cage-bird shows, 

 114; protest again>st sale of Skylarks, 123; 

 See also under subject headings. 



Rural Science in schools, course at Oxford for teacher?*, 

 26; at Cambridge, 111. 



Sanctuaries for birds, 1, 28, 49, 65, 81, 82, 106, 115 : 

 in the Royal Parks, 1, 12, 39, 54, 58 ; in the 

 Provinces, 28, 66, 82 ; Walton Hall, 65 ; National, 

 66. 



" Sanctuaries, Small Bird, and how to make them," 66, 



Scolt Head as a nature-reserve, 82, 



Schools, South African, competition in, 23, See 

 Bird and Tree Competition. 



Scottish National Farmers' Union on the rat-plague, 

 109. 



Sea-birds, destruction of, by oil-refuse, 17, 44, 68, 



74, 90. 



Shaw, Rev. W. A,, on the BuUfinch, 69, 



Sharpe, Sir Montagu, broadcasts a talk about the 



Society, 89 ; on the pole-trap, 106 ; on eating of 



Larks, 123. 

 Shrike, Redbacked, persecution by egg-collectors, 3, 4. 

 Siepi, Dr., on the destruction of SwaUows, 83. 

 Singapore, trade in plumage prohibited, 71, 73. 

 Skylarks, economic value of, 10, 11 ; effort to protect 



in Cambridgeshire, 73 ; eating of, 10, 72, 121, 123, 

 " Small Bird Sanctuaries and how to make them," 66. 

 Smuggling of bird-plumage, 70, 74, 116. 

 "Some Bird Friends," 110. 

 Songs of tlu^Birds, 30. 



