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Bird Notes and News 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



COUNCIL MEETINGS 



Meetings of the Council of the Society- 

 were held on October 1 9th and December 

 1 4th, 1923, at the Guildhall, Westminster, 

 S.W., the Chairman, Sir Montagu Sharpe, 

 K.C., presiding. 



The Report presented on the former 

 date by the Hon. Secretary stated that 

 a letter had been addressed to every 

 member of the Pembroke County Coun- 

 cil, drawing attention to the urgent 

 need for application to the Home Ofl&ce 

 for protection of the eggs of the Chough, 

 if the birds were to be saved from 

 extermination in the county by egg- 

 coUectors. At the December meeting 

 the Hon. Secretary was able to make 

 the satisfactory statement that an Order 

 had been applied for and obtained, pro- 

 tecting the eggs of the Chough throughout 

 the county. The publication by Messrs. 

 Dent of Mr. W. H. Hudson's last work, 

 Lost, Vanishing and Rare British Birds, 

 completed and edited by Miss L. Gardiner, 

 was announced. The Society's Christmas 

 card, with painting of the Goldfinch 

 by Mr. Thorburn, had been issued and 

 found a ready sale. The aid of the 

 Society had been invoked by the Societe 

 pour la Protection des Oiseaux in an 

 investigation set on foot by the French 

 Ministry of Agriculture into the feeding 

 habits of the Rook. The subject of the 

 alleged association between migrating 

 birds and outbreaks of foot-and-mouth 

 disease was also brought forward . Several 

 reports were received respecting the 

 destruction of sea-birds by waste oil. 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee presented the accounts for 

 the third quarter of 1923, and for October 

 and November respectively, together with 

 the accounts for payment. A legacy of 

 £50 had been received under the will of 

 Miss Helen Isabel Stewart, and £10 under 

 that of Mr. T. B. Jefferys ; and by the 

 sale of some of the books left by Mr. 

 W. H. Hudson to the Society as residuary 

 legatee £303 had been realised. Miss 



Margaret Williams was elected Hon. Local 

 Secretary for Carmarthen. The following 

 Fellows and Members were elected : — 



Fellows : — Mrs. S. R. Benson (Cornwall) ; M. S. 

 Berkeley (Perak, F.M.S.) ; Mrs. Leicester Carey (Kent) ; 

 Miss Rosa Chapman (Kent) ; Miss S. M. Collie (Beds.) ; 

 Miss A. M. Cummins, Miss E. A. Cummins (West 

 Virginia, U.S.A.) ; Mrs. Richard Emmott (Hants) ; 

 Captain Charles Evans (Somerset) ; Mrs. Farmer 

 (Hants) ; Philip G. Gilchrist (Lancashire) ; Mrs. 

 Samuel Garrett (Suffolk) ; E. W. Gough (Surrey) ; 

 Alfred R. Holland (N.W.) ; Mrs. Jones Leslie (Devon) ; 

 Lady Lucy (Kent) ; H. Vincent Marrot (W.) ; Miss 

 M, R. Moor (ComwaD) ; F. H, Newberry (S.E.) ; Mrs. 

 Wyndham Pain (Hants) ; Hon. W. J. Palmer (Hants) ; 

 Hon. Mrs. Sop with (Surrey) ; Mrs. H. M. Stanton 

 (Glos.) ; Mrs. A. Stork (London, W.C.) ; A. W. Travis 

 (Glamorgan) ; Miss A. M. Trusted (Cornwall). 



Members : — P. F. Ambrose (Maidstone) ; Rev. 

 Charles Ayland (Worcs.) ; Miss Diana Baird (Worcs.) ; 

 Miss Bayley (Worcs.) ; Dr. Belcher (Notts) ; Henry 

 Bemey (Surrey) ; Miss M. Lindsay Bergham (Kent) ; 

 Mrs. Bennion (Hants) ; Miss H. M. Benson, Miss S. V. 

 Benson (Cornwall) ; W. Booth (Cumberland) ; H. 

 Branford (Devon) ; Miss Burgess (Middlesex) ; Mrs. 

 David Bryce (Hants) ; Miss A. F. Bere (Leicester) ; 

 Henry F. Compton (S.W.) ; Captain H. L. Conor 

 (Cornwall) ; Lady Cotton-Jodrell (W.) ; A. Steven 

 Corbet, B.Sc. (Berks) ; Hon. Mrs. Denison (W.) ; 

 Charles F. Dickens (Hants) ; Miss G. E. El well (Kent) ; 

 Miss Eyre (Devon) ; Harold Foster (Bucks) ; A. W. 

 Frost (Essex) ; Miss E. M. Gamham (Glos.) ; Madame 

 de Gibeme-Sieveking (Kent) ; Mrs. W. Jacomb Gibbons 

 (Hants) ; Mrs. Eleanor Gissing (Suffolk) ; E. C. Green 

 (Kent) ; Miss D. M. Harris (Suffolk) ; the Marquess 

 of Hea(iord (Ireland) ; Miss Grace Hambly (Cornwall) ; 

 Rev. Gordon Hamlin (Dorset) ; Derek G. Hughes 

 (Glos.) ; Dr. J. P. Hill (Suffolk) ; Mrs. M. Isaacson 

 (Lancashire) ; Miss Eileen Jowett (S.W.) ; Rev, A. G. 

 Kealy, R.N. (Yorks) ; Miss Charity Kittson (Sussex) ; 

 Miss Knight (Morocco) ; Nurse Madge (Somerset) ; 

 E. J. Mayne (Devon) ; Mrs. H. M. T. Mason (Kent) ; 

 Charles A. Moss (Derby) ; Charles C. Nauwerck 

 (Surrey) ; Rev. L. O'Hea (Oxford) ; W. H. Parkin 

 (Yorks) ; Major Wisson Parsons (Dorset) ; Robert R. 

 Payne (Glos.) ; Miss R. F. Pennell (Devon) ; Miss 

 Plowman (S.W.) ; Charles B. Quain (N.) ; P. Ralfe 

 (Isle of Man) ; Miss K. Redmayne (Lanes.) ; Dr. 

 Robertson (Cumberland) ; Lady Rodd (W.) ; Mrs. 

 Ada Rosedale (S.W.) ; Miss D. Rowland (Surrey) ; 

 Samuel Samuel, M.P. (S.W.) ; A. St. George Sargeaunt 

 (Cornwall) ; Mrs. Sheldrick (Suffolk) ; Commander 

 S. M. Skinner, R.N. (S.W.) ; David P. Smith (Derby) ; 

 Miss B. Solly (S.W.) ; Miss Somes (Devon) ; Miss H. A. 

 Smythe (Warwickshire) ; J. E. Morland Sumner 

 (Lanes.) ; F. Stephens (W. Yorks) ; Mrs. S. H. Uloth 

 (Surrey) ; Miss Phoebe Walters (W.C.) ; A. H. Fabian 

 Ware (W.) ; Robert Weed (Kent) ; F. R. L. White 

 (Birmingham) ; C. St. L. Wilkinson (Somerset) ; 

 Miss Margaret Williams (S. Wales) ; Miss M. Talbot 

 Wilson (Rome) ; Frederick V. Wright (W.) ; Lady 

 Wrey (Kent) ; Mrs. Warren Wright (Glos.) ; Mrs. 

 L. M. Yorke (N. Wales). 



Life Members : — H. P. O. Cleave (Berks) ; G. 0. 

 Humphreys (N. Wales) ; Thomas Harvey (Stirling- 

 shire). 



