Title-page and Index of Vol. VI!. is issued with this Number. 

 VIII. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY -BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY^ 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Spring ljS(umber^ 1918/ 



No. 1. 



(^ONTKNTS. 



lie Fcathercti Food-Cojitroller 



\ Tiikl on Biiterns — Professor Arthur^ Thomson on 

 Destruction of Bird-Life— The late Flight Sub-^ 

 I.icut. O. B.'Etir5,',R^N.~Nature's Air-craft. 



Ihe RovmI Society for the Protection of Birds . . 4 



\nx)ii;U Meeting — Council Meeting — :Hon. Secretary'! 

 Report—Finance and General- Purposes Com- 

 mittee^ — lioy .Scouts and BiTdr-Sti»dy^-~Birds* Eggs 



•" ■>■ T^ood. ''■■'■ - 



hcuu.umic Ornithology ... .. .. •• 5 



Cai't. William Beebe and' Dr. (Qordoft Hewitt on •^* Bird 

 Protection " — " Sparrow Clubs "and their effects — 



The kitlini^ i^f R.-uks. 



niiu-aiiU-Trec Coiu|'v^' .. ^ 



J3. QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W.I 



