INDEX. 



Aberdeenshire County Council and Gulls, 31 



Abroad, Notes from, 48, 92 



Aeroplanes and Birds, 79, 102 



Afforestation, 23, 52, 57 



Africa, South, Weaver Birds of, 48j 



Albarracin, Dr., 46 



Albemarle Club, 35 



Alaskan Bird-life, 80 



American Museum Journal, quoted, 95 



Andre, Eugene, on Egret-slaughter in South 

 America, 27 



Andrewes, C. H., Essay by, 35 



Angler and the Birds, 43 



Anti-fly Campaign, 96, 103 



Aviation Congress at Dresden, 79 



Baring, C. C, on " Summer Migrants," 74 



Bass Rock, "Fishing " for Gannets at, 105 



Baudouy, M. Severin, 29, 46 



Belcher, Mr. C. F., " Birds of Geelong," 62 



Belgians and Bird-Protection, 78 



Belgium, Swallows in, 101 



" Berlepsch " Nesting-Boxes, 57 



Berries and Birds, 116 



Berry, Mr. W., and Tentsmuir, 94 



Birds and the War, 78, 87, 101 



Bird and Tree Challenge Shield Competitions, 23, 

 38, 51, 63, 82, 93, 108, 122 ; National Value of, 

 113; Winners of Inter-County Shield, 1915. 

 Face page 97 



Birdcatching, 2, 80 



Birdcatchers in Court, 84, 96, 128 



Bird-market at Islington, 117 



Bird Census in U.S.A., 117 



" Bird of Good Omen," 60 



Bird Baths, 95 



Bird Life on Lake of Neuchatel, 109 



Birdnesting, 23 



Bird Notes from the Trenches, 78, 87, 102 



Bird-Protection Acts, 45, 108 



Bird-Protection Orders, 32, 77, 90, 104, 120 



Bird-Protection in War-time, 92 



Bird-Rests at the Lighthouses, face page 25 ; 25, 48, 

 59, 121 



Bittern shot in Norfolk, 89 



Blunt, Mr. W. S., on the Plumage Bill, 19 



Board of Agriculture, Journal of, 80, 106, 115 



Bombay Chamber of Commerce and the Plume- 

 Trade, 8 



Booth, Mr. Handel, M.P., 3 



Books Received, 50, 62, 81 



Boy Scouts and Bird-Protection, 34 



Brean Down, 47 



Buckland, Mr. J., 98 



Bullfinch and Buds, 116; Releasing a Caged, 70 



Burns, Mr. R. and Pittencrieff Park, 116 



Burdet, Mr. A., 26, 46 



Buxton, Viscount, and Bird Protection, 1, 14. 

 Portrait. Face page 1 



Caging of Birds, 8, 35, 117 



Canada, Bird-Protection in, 33 ; Prohibits Im- 

 portation of Feathers, 48 



Catalunyan Society for Protection of Animals and 

 Plants, 50 



Cecil, Lord William, on " Uglification " of England, 

 39 



Chamber of Commerce, London, 4 ; Bombay, 8 



Chambre Syndicate des Fabricants des Plumes, 21 



" Cheshire Garden, In a," 81 



Chitty, Mr. G. W , 105 



Chough in Cornwall, 73 



Close-time Protection, 107 



Collinge, Mr. W., on Food of House-Sparrow, 55 ; 



on Economic Position of Woodpeckers, 115 

 Colonies, British, and Exportation of Bird-skins, 14 

 " Committee for Economic Preservation of Birds," 



9, 10, 16 

 Cornwall, Sir E., M.P., and Plumage Bill, 3, 7, 13, 28 

 County Gentleman, quoted, 43 



Crawshay, Captain, on Birds on the Battlefield, 102 

 Croft, Mr. Page, M.P., and the Plumage Bill, 7, 14, 39 

 Crossbill, The. Face page 69 

 Curzon of Kedleston, Lord, on the Plumage Trade, 



9, 17 

 Daily News on Christmas Bird-market, 117 

 Daubeney, Rev. E. T., 48 

 Denniss, Mr., M.P., on Plumage Bill, 5 

 Diamond-back Moth, 106 

 Dresser, Mr. H. E., 120 

 Drummond, Judge, on Birdcatching, 80 

 Dutch New Guinea, Bird Protection in, 101 

 Eagle, White-tailed, 72 

 " East Sussex " on Bird and Tree work, 39 

 Economic Ornithology, 29, 45, 55, 92, 98, 106, 115 

 Egerton-Warburton, Rev. G., " In a Cheshire 



Garden," 81 ; Story of a Goldcrest, 111 

 Egrets in Venezuela, 6, 27, 49. See also Plume 



Trade ; in Egypt, 49 

 Egypt, Bird Protection in, 44 ; Protection of Egrets, 



49 

 Eider-duck, Taking eggs of, 96, 112 

 Estates Gazette, on Farmers and Birds, 108 

 Farmer and the Birds, 108 

 Feathers, Value of Imported, 4. See Plume-Trade 



and Importation of Plumage Bill 

 " Feathered Woman, The," 92, 100 

 Feather-Sales, 27 



Fishery Boards and Sea Birds, 31 

 " Fisherman's Friends," 43 

 Flower, Capt. Stanley, 44, 49 

 Fortnightly Review, " The Fight for the Birds," 



3, 6, 24 

 Fortune, Mr. Riley, on Sparrow Clubs, 117 

 France and the Plume-Trade, 5, 10, 21, 28 ; Inter- 

 national Exhibition in Paris, 29, 46, 48 

 Fruit and Birds, 45, 116 

 Gamekeepers and Traps for Birds, 40, 85 

 Gannets, Economic Position of, 31 ; on Bass Rock, 



105 

 Gas, Poison, Perception of by Birds, 102 

 Gaskell, Right Hon. C. Milnes, on the Plumage 



Bill, 18 

 " Geelong, Birds of," 62 

 Goldcrest, Story of a, 111 



Gray, Mr. Harper, on Diamond-back Moth, 106 

 Grey, Sir Edward, M.P., on the Plumage Bill, 17 

 Greenfinch in a Schoolroom, 83 

 Green Woodpecker, Nesting-hole of. Face page 53 ; 



Vqflue to Forestry, 80, 115 

 Goldfinch, Birdcatcher and, 80, 84 

 Guermonprez, Mr. H., on Tits and Fruit, 108 

 Guest. Lady Theodora, on Plumage Bill, 18 

 Guest, Major, M.P., 8, 14 

 Gulls, Warning of Submarines, 79 ; Economic 



status, 31, 94 ; Memorial in Utah, 30 



