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BIRD NOTES&NEWS 



THE JOURNAL OF THERoYAL SOCIETY 

 FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



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CONTENTS. 



AUTUMN NUMBER. 1909. 



THE STORY OF THE EGRET. 



The Pole-Trap Again - 



The Law of Bird-Protection 



Bird Protection Orders ... 



Notes ------- 



The End of the Close Time— How 

 to Destroy Birds — Cage - Birds in 

 America— The Traffic In Quails— Bird 

 Sanctuaries— Island Reserves. 



The Royal Society for the Protection 

 of BirdB - 

 Council Meeting— Obituary. 



The Plume Trade - - - - 

 Economic Ornithology ... 



Sparrows and 8parrow Clubs — The 

 Grower and the Birds. 



Bird and Tree Day - - - 



Arbor Day Pageant. 



Fish Culture and the Birds 



In the Courts 



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