INDEX. 



South Africa, Bird Protection Society, 23, 86 ; Com- 

 petitions in Schools, 23 ; Natviral History of, 119. 



Sparrow (/lubs, 31, 



Sparrow. House, insect-food of, 11 ; at Newcastle 

 Cathedral, 107, 



St, Quintin. Mr. W. H., on the decrease of Swallows, 84, 



Stevenson, R. L., shooting forbidden near tomb of, 72. 



Starlings in Norfolk, 76. 



Stt)ne Curlew , persecution of, 25. 



Suckling, the late Mrs. F. H., 113. 



Summer camps for boys, Society's representative at, 

 121. 



Swallows, Our, 77 ; the shortage of, 83 ; early arrival 

 of, 14 ; destruction of nests, 127. 



Swan, added to Schedule of Plumage Act, 108. 



Syers, Mr. Edsar, on destruction of Swallows' nests. 

 127. 



Terns, killed by July rainstorms (1922) at Dungeuess, 



50. 

 Thames Conservancy, 44. 

 Thorbum, A., designs Society's Greeting Card, 



1923-24, 105. 

 Thrushes, insects destroyed by, 11. 

 Tits, Blue and Great, feeding habits of, 11. 

 " Tragedy of Ceryle, The," 68. 

 Tree-planting by roadsides, 110. 

 Trees as memorials, 1 3. 

 Trevelyan, Miss M., " Bird Sanctuary' at Assisi." 81 ; 



bird-life in Italy, 86. 

 Trevor-Battye, Mr. Aubyn B., death of, 57. 



UUswater, Lord, appointed member of Board of 



Trade Advisory Committee (Plumage), 105. 

 Ulster S.P.C.A. and " recently taken " birds, 95. 

 Urwin, Mr. W. B., H.M.I., death of, 104. 



U.S.A., conservation of bird-lile in, 26 ; existenc* 

 threatened of Heath-Hen, Prairie Chicken, and 

 Quail, 107 ; Millinery Chamber of Commerce and 

 the importation of i)lumage, 42. 



Venezuela, Egret feathers from, 42. 



Vermin Club, Argyllshire, 9; Vermin and game, 14. 



Visger, Mrs. Owen, death of, 41. 



Wagtail, Grey-headed, breeding in Kent, 26. 



Wagtails, economic value of, 108. 



Walthamstow Reservoir as a Bird Sanctuary, 106. 



Walton, Mr. Felix, on the Bullfinch, 69. 



Watchers' Committee of the l^.S.P.B., 2, 49, 59, 89, 



121, 128 ; dangers of bird-photography, 87. 

 Waterton, Charles, Bird Sanctuary at Walton Hall, 65. 

 Watson, Mr. J. B., on bird-destruction in Italy, 93. 

 Waydelin, Mr. F. J., on the B.O.U. and egg-collecting. 



"25. 

 Weathers, Mr. J., on birds and fruit, 42. 

 Welsh Bird Protection notices and local bird names, 76. 

 Whinchat, The. Face p. 65. 

 Wight, Isle of, Peregrine Falcons shot in, 29, 32. 

 Wild Birds Protection Acts, statistics of prosecutions 



under, 86, 89. See In the Courts. 

 Wild Birds Protection BUI (1923), 99, 121. 

 Wilson, Mr. G. F., Bibliography of the Writings of 



W. H. Hudson, 59. 

 Wimbledon Common, bird-nesting on, 95. 

 Woman's Exhibition at Olympia (1922), 41. 

 Wood, Canon Theodore, on the House-Sparrow, 11 ; 



death of, 122. 

 Woodlands, English, and modem forestry, 38. 



Yate, Sir Charles, and destruction of Green Plover, 23. 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 13, 



Zoological Gardens, reception held by the R.S.P.B. 



at, 26. 

 Zoological Gardens, Giza, 115. 



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