ol. Vllt No. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Summer J^mber^ 1 9 1 8 . 



CONTENTS. 



Food Crops and the Protection of Birds 



The Destruction of Rooks — Wood-Pigeons and Cater- 

 pillars — Antler-motK Plague. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . . 12 



Council Meeting — Obituary — Heather-burning in Close- 

 time — Holiday Bird-persecution. 



Notes . . ... . . . . . . •• ^ 



The Red-breasted Flycatcher in Kent — M. Magaud 

 d'Aubusson — Poison for Everybody — A Short Way 

 with the Sparrows — The Birds Avenged. 



Birds in the War Area • • . . i - 



2a, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W.I. 



