Title-page and Index of Vol. VI. will be issued with the Spring Number, 1916. 

 Vol. VI. No. 8. 



BIRD NOTES 



AND NEWS 



ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



IV inter Jtymber, 1 9 1 5 . 



CONTENTS. 



TACK 



The R.S.P.B. in War Time,— II 113 



Economic Ornithology ... ... ... 115 



Woodpeckers and Forestry — Birds and Wireworms — 

 Buds and BttUhnches. 



Notes 116 



Berries for the Birds — Tree-planting in the Parks — 



23,000 Hawks — A Bird Census — Larks in Islington 



The Cage-bird Tratfic — Sparrow-Clubs — Rare Bird 



Visitors. 



Bird Protection in the West Indies ... ... 118 



Public School Essay Competition ... ... 119 



The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 120 



Council Meeting — Obituary— Bird Projection at the 



Lighthouses. 



Bird-and-Tree (Arbor Day ) 122 



In the Courts ... ... ... ... ... 12S 



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