INDEX. 



Africa, South, Birds of Prey in, 55 



Agriculture and Birds, 4, 38, 59, 76, 77, 90 



" Albatross" quills, 42 



America, South, Egret-hunting in, 32, 45 



Animal Protection Congress, 76, 86 



Anti- Plumage Movement, 28 



Arbor Day. See Bird and Tree Day 



Arbor Day Pageant, 91 



Argentine S.P.C.A., 63 



Audubon Societies and the Plume trade, 72 



Australia, Plume hunting in, 3, 72, 88; Ornithologists' 

 Union, 5, 7 1 ; Bird Protection, 5, 41 ; Brush 

 Turkey, 72 



Autumn Conference of R.S.P.B., 37 



Avebury, Lord, "A modern St. Francis," face p. 13. 

 See Importation of Plumage Bill. 



Balance of Nature, 5 



Banbury, Sir F., 17, 25 



Bird and Tree (Arbor Day) Competitions and Festivals, 

 8, 42, 47, 64, 91, 100 



" Bird-catcher at Work," 13 



Bird-catching in Close-time, 70; in Open Season, 84; 

 and caging, 53 ; with hooks, 17, 68 



Bird-catchers in Court, 12, 24, 43, 56, 68, 80, 92 



Bird Protection Acts, amendments needed, 71 ; Act of 

 1908, 25 



Bird Protection Orders, 7, 15, 43, 54, 68, 78, 8^, 104 



Bird -of- Paradise, 7, 32, 35, 72. See also Plume Trade 



" Birds Useful and Harmful," 77 



Bitterns, Shooting, 12, 24 



B.O.U. and Bird Protection, 16 ; Migration Bulletin, 55 



Board of Agriculture Leaflet, 104 



British Association Enquiry into food of Birds, 39, 55 



Brush Turkey, 72 



Brussels, Bird Protection in, 44 



Builder and the Birds, 73 



Bustards in England, 60 



Cage-bird traffic, 17, 85 



Caged Kestrel, 61 



Canada, Bird Protection Society, 5 



Close Time, Legislation, 12 ; Bird-catching in, 70 



Collector, The, 1, 16 



Conference, R.S.P.B.,37, 52 



Congress, Animal Protection, 76, 86 



" Comparative Legislation for the Protection of Birds," 

 62, 75, 82 



Cornwall, Bird-catching in, 25 



Country Life, quoted, 2 



County Councils and Bird Protection, 2 ; Bird Protection 

 Orders, 7, 15, 43, 54, 68, 80, 92, 104 



Courts, In the, 12, 24, 43, 55, 68, 80 



Destruction of Animals and Birds, Humane, 104 



Dobson, Hon. Alfred, 51 



Dorset Farmers and the Lapwing, 76 



Dover Peregrines, 80 



Dungeness, Taking eggs at, 37 



Dutch Guinea, 32 



Dutcher, Mr. W., 72, 74 



Economic Ornithology, 4, 38, 59, 77, 90 



Eggs, Illegal taking of, 37, 80 



Egret. See Plume Trade and Importation of Plumage 

 Bill. 



" Egret, Story of the," 88, 94 ; Nest of, 93 



Eldred, E. J., On Domestication of the Bustard, 60 



" Evening with the Birds, An," 104 



Farmers and the Lapwing, 76 



Feathered Hats, 3 



Feeding Habits of Birds, 39, 55 



Feeding the Birds, 61, 97 



" Fete of the Nests," 44 



Fish Culture and Birds, 92 



" Food of some British Birds," 59 



Germany, Bird Protection in, 16 

 Gold Medal of the Society, 62, 82 

 Goura Pigeon, destruction forbidden, 72 



Haggard, Mr. A., 46 



Hagmann, Dr., 32 



Harrow, Tree Day, 5 



Hawking Wild Birds, 17 



Herman, Mr. Otto, 77 



Hewitt, Professor C. Gordon, on Larch Fly Pest at 

 Thirlmere, 45 ; on Feeding Habits of Birds, 39 



Hodge, Mr. Harold, on Sparrow Clubs, 52 



Hooks for Catching Birds, 17, 25, 68 



Hudson, Mr. W. H., 25 



Importation of Plumage Prohibition Bill, 5, 7, 20, 26, 

 40, 45, 52, 63, 95 ; further Bills, 70, 86 



International Congress, 76, 86 



India, Smuggling from, 39 



In the Courts, 12, 24, 43, 56, 68, 80 



Inspectors, The Society's, and their work, 13, 63, 70, 

 80, 81 



