Vol. X. 



No. G 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Summer dumber, 1923. 



CONTEiNTS. 



St. Francis preaching to the Birds 



PAGE 



A Bird Sanctuary at Assisi ... ... ... 81 



The Swallows ... ... ... ... ... 83 



Economic Ornithology... ^.. ... ... 85 



The Lapwing — The Bullfinch — ^To Save the Fruit 



Notes ... ... ... ... ... 86 



Prosecutions under the Protection Acts — In South Africa — Two Pictures 

 from Italy— New Italian Law — Lord Rothschild and Poland — Pole-trap 

 suppressed in Finland — TTie Cinema — The Photographer and the Birds 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ... 88 



Council Meeting 



International Nature- Protection Congress ... ... 90 



The Work of the Bird Section 



International Committee for Protection of Birds ... 91 



The Plumage Trade ... ... ... ... 91 



Moor- Burning in Close Time ... ... ... 92 



From Correspondents ... ... ... ... 93 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competition ... 94 



In the Courts ... ... ... ... 95 



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