Vol. X 



No. I. 



With this Number "Bird Notes and News" is enlarged to 16 pages, 

 and the Annual Subscription is now 2s. 6d. Free to 

 Fellows and Members of the R.S.P.B. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS- 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Spring dumber, 1922. 



CONTENTS. 



Bird Sanctuaries 



B.O. U. and the Egg-Collector ... ... 



The Keeper and the Kestrels 

 The Trade in Birds' Plumage 



The Plumage Act— What the Act does. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



Anaual Meeting — Council Meeting — Argyllshire Vermin Club^ — Protection 

 of Larks. _ ' . 



Economic Ornithology i ... 



Birds, In«ect«i and Crops — Canon Wood on the House-Sparrow. 



Notes 



Permanent Bird- Protection Fund-— Dr. Ritchie on Birdcatching— Groves as 

 War Memorials — The Egret and the Cotton Crop — Birds as Disease' 

 carriers — The Park Sanctuaries. 



From Correspondents ... 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



In the Courts 



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