CONTENTS. 



1919. 



SPRING NUMBER, 1919. 



What the Birds Said 



Mr. Roosevelt and English Birds . . . . 



Economic Ornithology 



Birds Beneficial to Agriculture — Pros and Cons — 

 Tlie Catapult — Value of the Magpie — Natural 

 History Museum. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 



Annual Meeting — Council Meeting — Obituary — 

 Bird-Watching in 1918. 



Notes . . . . . . . . 



The Plumage Trade 



Bird-and-Tree Challenge Shield Competition 



AUTUMN NUMBER, 1919. 



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SUMMER NUMBER, 1919. 



Reconstruction 41 



Economic Ornithology . . . . . . . . 42 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 44 



Council Meeting— Obituary — Decrease of the 

 Heron. 



The Plumage Trade 45 



Notes 46 



The Antarctic Penguins — Aircraft and Birds — The 

 LiKue FranQaise — Educating the Public — The 

 Board of Agriculture's Reapouaibility — In 

 Belgium. 



Bird and Tree (Arbor Day) in the Schools . . . . 47 



Protection of Wild Birds 48 



In the Courts . . . . . . . . . . 48 



Heligoland 



Notes . . 



Economic Ornithology 



Birds Versus Poison-Sprays— The Little Owl. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 



The Plumage Trade 



Deputation to the President of the Board of Trade — 

 Memorial to the Government — Why the Bill 

 was Lost — City Firm's Testimony — " A 

 Remunerative Trade " 



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Supplement. 



Report of the Departmental Committee on Bird 

 Protection. 



WINTER NUMBER, 1919. 



The New Plumage Bill 



General Committee — "The 

 Cruelty." 



Notes . . 



German Badge of 



Handbook of Birds—" The Indian Humanitarian " 

 — Smuggled Plumage in the States — X Rare 

 Visitor — At the Lighthouses — War Memorials 

 — Nesting-box Families. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 



Council Meetings — The Penguins of Macquarie 

 Island — Bird Protection in Egypt — Obituary. 



Bird and Tree (Arbor Day) Competition . . 



Award of Inter-County and County Shields — The 

 Scheme and the Education Act. 



In the Courts 



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