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Bird Notes and News 



THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 



The Committee of the Exposition 

 Internationale d'Insectes, de Poissons 

 d'Ornement, et d'Oiseaux de Voliere, 

 held in Paris in June last, under the 

 presidency of Prince Pierre d'Arenberg, 

 awarded the Royal Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Birds a Diplome de Premier 

 Prix, in the section " Protection of 

 Birds." The Grand Prix in the class 

 went to the Netherlands, and others 

 to the Ligue Francaise pour la 

 Protection des Oiseaux, the Societe 

 d' Agriculture de la Gironde, and the 

 Societe d' Agriculture du Lot et Garonne. 



BIRD-RESTS AT LIGHTHOUSES. 

 The third of the Lighthouses to be 

 fitted with bird-rests by the R.S.P.B. 

 is the South Bishop Lighthouse, off 

 Pembrokeshire, South Wales ; and the 

 installation here was completed by the 

 Trinity House engineers by the end of 

 August, 1914. It was particularly desir- 



able that the rests should be in place 

 before the autumn migrations began, 

 as large numbers of winter migrants 

 to this country pass this light and many 

 a Fieldfare, Redwing, Skylark, and Plover 

 is in danger of death at the lantern on 

 dark and stormy nights. 



OBITUARY. 



The Rev. Edmund Thomas Daubeney, 

 whose death occurred at Southacre 

 Rectory, Norfolk, in August last, took a 

 keen and active interest in the R.S.P.B. 

 Bird-and-Tree Competitions, and until 

 the present year was one of the local 

 judges of the Norfolk Essays. He was 

 well known to readers of Bird Notes 

 and News through the useful papers on 

 the economic value of the Gull, Heron, 

 and Dipper, which he contributed to 

 its pages in 1912-13. Mr. Daubeney 

 was a constant student of bird-life and 

 a keen observer. He was seventy years 

 of age. 



The Plume-Trade. 



The Netherlands Bird Protection Society 

 sends out with its Year Book for 1913-14 

 a copy of the R.S.P.B. pictorial card 

 " Some Victims of the Plume-Trade," 

 with the titling " Enkele slachtoffers 

 van den vereen-handel." There is also 

 a forcible article on this traffic, with 

 figures taken from the London Sales. 



A correspondent writes to the 

 R.S.P.B. :— 



"Thirty years ago, when I first went to 

 South Africa, the most beautiful birds 

 gathered to be fed on the carriage-drive of 

 the house where I was received to be 

 married, near Cape Town. I think they 

 were Weavers. They built hanging nests 

 in the fir-trees at the foot of the mountain. 

 Their plumage was most brilliant — bright 



green with yellow breasts. When I again 

 went to the Cape some years later these birds 

 had almost vanished. When I visited 

 South Africa in 1911-12 they had completely 

 disappeared, as had many other birds I 

 knew years ago. In the Army and Navy 

 Stores' millinery department some months 

 ago I noticed little birds from the 

 Transvaal." The writer adds: "Women 

 decorate themselves with these feathers and 

 plumes to attract the attention of men. 

 If men were to show their dislike of such 

 so-called adornments, women would 

 speedily cease to wear them." 



CANADA PROHIBITS 

 IMPORTATION. 

 Canada has not been long in bringing 

 her Customs Tariff into line with that 

 of the United States as regard the 

 importation of plumage. Schedule C 



