Vol. VI. No. 7 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



^Autumn J^Qimber, i 9 1 5 . 



CONTENTS. 



Bird-and-Tree Day: Winners of Inter- 

 County Challenge Shield, 1914-15 ... Frontispuct. 



PAGR 



The R.S.P.B. in War Time.— I. 97 



The Plume Trade ... ... ... ... 100 



Notes ... ... ... ... 101 



How the Swallows came back to Belgium — Birds in 

 the War Area — The Artilleryman and the Owl — 

 Birds and Zeppelins in Norfolk — Effect of Aeroplanes 

 on Birds — Whitethroats at Mapledurham Lock — 

 Unusual Nesting Sites — The Anti-fly Campaign. 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 104 



Council Meeting — Obituary — Public School Com- 

 petition — Christmas Card. 



Economic Ornithology ... ... ... 106 



Tits and Fruit-trees — The Diamond-backed Moth — 

 The Starling — "Close-time Protection — The Farmer 

 and the Birds. 



Bird-and-Tree Competition ... ... ... 108 



Bird-Life on the Lake of Neuchatel ... 109 



Correspondence ... ... ... ... in 



In the Courts ... ... ... ... ... 1 1 2 



23, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W. 



