TABLE OF CONTENTS.— VOLUME VIIL 



1918. 



SPRING NUMBER, 1918. 



The Feathered Food-Controller .. 



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Notes . . 



A Raid on Bitterns — Professor Arthur Thomson on 

 Destruction of Bird-Life — The late Flight sub- 

 Lieut. O. B. Ellis, E.N.— Nature's Air-craft. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



Annual Meeting — Council Meeting — Boy Scouts 

 and Bird Study — Birds' Eggs for Food. 



Eoonomic Ornithology 



Capt. William Beebe and Dr. Gordon Hewitt on 

 " Bird Protection " — " Sparrow Clubs " and 

 their effects — The Killing of Rooks. 



Bird-and-Tree Competitions 

 In the Courts 



SUMMER NUMBER, 1918. 



Food Crops and the Protection of Birds . . . . 9 



The Destruction of Rooks — Wood-Pigeons and 

 Caterpillars — Antler-moth Plague. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 12 



Council Meeting — Obituary — Heather-burning in 

 Close-tirae — Holiday Bird-persecution. 



Notes 14 



The Red-breasted Flycatcher in Kent — M. Magaud 

 d'Aubusson — Poison for Everybody — A Short 

 Way with the Sparrows — The Birds Avenged. 



Birds in th« War Area . . 15 



AUTUMN NUMBER, 1918. 

 Bird Protection in Canada 



Economic Ornithology 



The Board and its Allies — Birds and Food-crops — 

 The Gooseberry Caterpillar — Woodpeckers in 

 Jamaica — The American Food-Controller on 

 Bird Protection. 



The Plumage Trade , 



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Boche Fashions — Pennsylvania's 

 Chinese Pheasant " Farms." 



Law — 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 



Council Meeting — Boy Scouts' Competition — 

 Leaflet Fund. 



Birds in the War Area 



Notes . . 



Bird-and-Tree Challenge Sliield Competition 



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WINTER NUMBER, 1918. 



The First Flying Corps 25 



Economic Ornithology . . . . . . . . 27 



The Food of Certain Wild Birds— The Wood-Pigoou 

 — Our Friend the Owl. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 28 

 Council Meetings — Obituary — Penguin-Oil. 



The Plumage Trade 29 



Birds in the War Area . . . . . . . . 29 



Notes 30 



Bird-and-Tree Challenge Shield Competition . . 31 



Nesting-Boxes for Birds . . . . . . . . 32 



