NO. 6 



BIRD NOTES&NEWS 



THE JOURNAL OF THERoYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



CONTENTS. 



SUMMER NUMBER, 1909. 



23, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE. 



The Society's New Offices - 

 Birdcatching in Close Time 

 The Plume Trade 



Notes 



Plume Birds of New South Wales— 

 The Brush Turkey— Rare Birds in 

 Britain— The Builder and the Birds. 



The Royal Society for the Protection 

 of Birds - 



Council Meeting — Obituary — Animal 

 Protection Congress. 



Economic Ornithology - 



The Farmers and the Lapwing— Birds 

 Useful and Harmful -The Value of 

 the Book. 



Bird Protection Orders - 



Bird-Life in Switzerland - 



In the Courts 



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