Bird Notes and News 



89 



E. Duff, Miss H. L. Duff (N.W.) ; Mrs. David Ferguson 

 (N.W.); Ivie M. Fulton (Cheshire); Dr. ^L Gepp 

 (Salop) ; Mrs. Hall (Devon) ; Mrs. A. Harrison 

 (Durham) ; Miss Florence Hay (Berks) ; Mies Hibbert- 

 Ware (Essex) ; Thomas Hodgson (Oxon) ; Walter 

 Hopwood (E.); W. E. Houlbrook (Yorks) ; Mrs. 

 H. F. Houlder (Surrey) ; S. Houlston (Warwick) ; 

 Miss Penelope Hull (Northants) ; Mrs. Humfrey 

 (Wales) ; H. W. Jarman (Hants) ; Harold G. Kenyon 

 (Herts) ; Miss G. Lewis (Essex) ; M. McKerrow, M.C., 

 M.B. (Cumberland) ; Mrs. Maconochie (Berks) ; Mrs. 

 R. V. Macrory, Master R. D. Macrory (Ireland) ; Mrs. 



F. W. Maude (S.W.) ; Miss F. Maude (Berks) ; Major 

 Noott (Kent) ; Samuel Ogden (Lanes) ; Mrs. Parker 

 (Bucks) ; Frank Peake Parkin (Surrey) ; Sirs. Payne 

 (Suffolk) ; A. Rose (Glos.) ; Miss Mary E. Scott 

 (Yorks) ; Mrs. Seaton (Salop) ; Miss W. Smith (Glos.) ; 

 Mrs. Squire (Bucks) ; J. Sterieker (Surrey) ; Major 

 H. J. Stevenson (Midlothian) ; Mrs. F. Storr (Surrey) ; 

 Miss Tattershall (N.W.) ; Jliss R. Trevor- Battye 

 (Hants) ; Viscount UUswater, G.C.B. (Suffolk) ; Mrs. 

 Usher (Berks) ; WiUiam Walker '(Midlothian) ; Mrs. 

 Wemyss (N.W.) ; Miss A. Whitehouse (Warwick) ; 

 Captain R. W. Willis (Essex) ; Edward A. Wilson 

 (Glos.) ; Mrs. WUson (Berks) ; Miss A. Wood 

 (Warwick). 



Life Member : — Miss Lloyd Theakston (Lanes). 



Affiliated : — Quintin C.E. School, Birmingham. 

 It was suggested and agreed that in 

 addition to the lending of lantern slides 

 for lectures by Fellows and Members of 

 the Society, further lectures should be 

 prepared to be loaned with slides en bloc. 

 The Watchers' Committee presented the 

 report of their meeting held on February 

 28th, and subjects arising out of it were 

 discussed, including the protection of wild 

 birds in Epping Forest and the continued 

 use of the pole-trap. The Standing Com- 

 mittees were elected for the year, namely, 

 the Watchers, Finance and General 

 Purposes, Publications, Publicity, and 

 Bird and Tree. Mr. A. Holte Macpherson 

 was elected a member of the Council. Sir 

 Montagu Sharpe and Mr. Lemon were 

 nominated as the Society's representatives 

 on the International Committee for the 

 Protection of Wild Birds. The Inter- 

 national Congress to be held in Paris was 

 also discussed, and it was decided that 

 the Society's delegates should especially 

 bring forward the questions of the des- 

 truction of birds by oil-waste on the sea 

 and the plumage trade. Letters on 

 various matters were read and con- 

 sidered. 



THE SOCIETY'S WORK. 

 By request of the British Broadcasting 

 Company, Sir Montagu Sharpe broad- 



casted from the London station, on May 

 16th, a ten minutes' talk on the work of 

 the R.S.P.B. From correspondence since 

 received it is evident the address, brief 

 as it had to be, roused considerable 

 interest, and Sir Montagu has since 

 repeated it for other stations. 



In the April number of Natureland 

 (edited by Dr. Graham Renshaw, Bridge 

 House, Sale, Manchester), Mr. C. B. 

 Horsbrugh comments on the Report of 

 the Society's Watchers' Committee as of 

 interest to all who are striving to protect 

 our rarer British birds : — 



'' Thanks to the often very arduous 

 labours of the watchers, many rare species 

 are on the increase. . . . It is pleasant 

 to note that Peregrine and Buzzard, 

 Raven and Chough are holding their 

 own." 



THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION 



ACTS 



The following particulars, taken from 

 the Blue Book of Criminal Statistics, 

 show the number of prosecutions under 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts in the 

 year 1920 : — 



Metropolitan Police Area, 20 — Total, 137. 



The average number of prosecutions 

 per annum for periods of five years prior 

 to 1920 was as follows : — 



