TABLE OF CONTENTS.— VOLUME VI. 



1914. 



No. 1.-SPRING NUMBER, March. 1914. 

 Sib Sydney Buxton, G.C.M.G. 



Sir Sydney Buxton and Bird Protection - 1 



The Government Plumage Bill ... 2 

 Debate on Second Reading. Division List. 

 In Committee. Public Meeting. 



Plumage Bill Manifestos. Verdict of Scientific 

 Mr. Charles Rothschild on Societies. 



the " Economic " Committee. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 17 



Annual Meeting. 

 Public School Essay Com- 

 petition, 1914. 



Notes ... 



France and the Feather 



Trade. 

 Public Bodies and Bird 



Protection. 



Bird-and-Tree (Arbor) Day 

 The " Owl " Prizes. 

 Children and Bird-nesting. 



Plumage Bill Literature 



Council Meeting. 

 Plumage Bill Fund. 



Ostrich Feathers. 

 Mr. T. M. Healy. 



21 



23 



Sir Oliver Lodge on Tree- 

 planting. 



24 



No. 2.— SUMMER NUMBER, Jane, 1914. 



Bird-rests at the Lighthouse. 



Round the Lighthouse Lantern 25 



The Plumage Importation Bill 27 



Economic Ornithology ----- 29 

 The Swallows. Bird Protection in the 



The First Bird Memorial. United States. 



Sea-Birds and the Fisheries. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 32 

 Council Meeting. Bird Protection in Greater 



Britain. 



Notes -------- 34 



Bird Protection in Canada. " Uglification " of England. 

 The late Sir Henry Seton- Killing of Larks. 

 Karr. 



Public School Essay Competition 35 



Silver Medal Paper. 

 Bird-and-Tree (Arbor) Day 38 



Essay Competition. Societv's Cadets. 



Bird-nesting. Use of the Country. 



Plumage Bill Literature 40 



No. 3. -AUTUMN NUMBER, September, 1914. 



"The Hill of Birds." 

 The Plumage Bill - - - - - 41 



Notes - 43 



The Society and the War. 

 Swallows in Shetland. 

 Parasitic Birds. 

 The pious Plover. 



Economic Ornithology - 45 



Some Notes on the Utility 

 of Birds. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 46 

 Council Meeting. 

 Bird-rests at Lighthouses. 

 Obituary. 



The Plume-Trade 



The Netherlands Society. 

 Canada prohibits Importa- 

 tion. 

 The Solomon Islands. 



Nesting-Boxes. 

 Birds and Anglers. 

 Success of Bird Protection 

 in Egypt. 



Birds and Fruit. 



Brean Down. 

 Paris Exhibition. 



Birds in South Africa. 

 Egrets in Venezuela. 

 Egrets in Egypt. 



48 



Bird Protection in Spain 

 Birds and Poets - 

 Bird-and-Tree Competitions - 



50 

 50 

 51 



No. 4. -WINTER NUMBER, December, 1914 



Old Green Woodpecker's Nesting-hole. 

 Red-backed Shrike's Nest and Eggs. 



The Preservation of Owls 53 



Economic Ornithology ----- 55 



The Food of the House-Sparrow. 

 Notes --------56 



The French Society for Bird Birds in the War Area. 



Protection and the War. Nesting Box-making as a 

 Thirlmere Afforestation British Industry. 



Scheme. How Insect Pests are 



kept down. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 58 

 Council Meeting. Bird-rests at Lighthouses. 



" Bird of Good Omen." Public School Essay 



Competition. 



Books Received ------ 62 



Bird-and-Tree (Arbor) Day 63 



Inter-County Shield. County Challenge Shields. 



