INDEX. 



Life ami PVor/^, 44 



Lilford, the late Lord, 6I 



Lubbock, Sir J. (Lord Avebury), 14, 6^ 



Madras Mail, on Plume-Hunting, 40 



Malta, 59 



Maxwell, Sir Herbert, Portrait oi,face page 61 j Bird 

 Protection Bills, 62 



Menegaux, Dr, A., 77 



Middlesex County Council and Bird Protection, 73 87 



Migration of Birds, 47, 58, 95 



Migratory Birds, Protection of, 17 



Millinery, See Plume-Trade 



Moorhen, Nest, The, 71 



" Moulted Plumes," 27, 39, 51 



Morris, Rev. F. O., 2, 38 



Musgrave, Mr. G. A., 37 



Natal, Bird Protection in, 30 



"Naturalists Publishing Company," 61 



Nature Study in Schools, 35, 69 



Nesting Boxes, 34, 43, 91 



New South Wales and Bird Protection, 43 



New Forest, 69 



Newton, Professor, 2, 26, 28, 37, 63 



New York Plumage Bill, 16, 88 



Nicholson, Mr. W. E. See Watchers Supplement 



Notes, 4, 22, 34, 43, 57, 68, 92 



Obituary Notices : Lord Cawdor, 55 ; Earl of Carlislci 

 67; Mr. John Colam, 19; Colonel Collins, 90; 

 Colonel Coulson, 67 ; Mrs. D. T. Cowan, 67 ; Rev. 

 J. Ferguson, 55 ; Mr. IL Scherren, 67 ; Earl of 

 Stamford, 19 



"Osprey" plumes, Alleged artificial, 29. See Plume- 

 trade, " Stor}- of the Egret," tk.c. 



" Other Sides of the Bars, The," 65 



Owls, Protection of, 41, 53, 64. }sld^^,fiue page 37 



Pageant, Crystal Palace, 4 



Pam, Mr. Albert, on Plume-hunting, 51 



Parks, Birds in the, 58 



Passenger Pigeon, 5 



Pease, Mr. Alfred, Bird Protection Bill, 61 



Pichot, Monsieur P. Amadee, 46 



Pigott, Sir Digby, 63 



Plume-Trade, li, 16, 27, 37, 39, 40, 50, 70, 76, 80; 



Colonial Office Committee on, 16, 27, 70 

 Plumage League, 38 ; in Germany, 89 

 Poisoned Grain, use of, 24, 60 

 Pole-Trap, 24, 53 



Protection of Crops, Essay Competition, 55 

 Proud, Mrs. Maynard, 69 

 Punch, 25, 37 



Public-School Essay Competition, 42, 55, 71, 91 

 " Possession " of Wild Birds, 5, 22, 60, 84 

 Quails, Trade in, 30 



Rare Birds, 36, 57, 68, 72. See Watchers Supplement 

 Rat Plague, 41, 53 

 Rawnsle^, Rev. Canon, 53, 73 

 " Recently taken," 5, 22, 23, 93 

 Richardson's Skua, taking a, 36 



Royal Society for the Protection of Birds : Annual 

 Meetings, 6, 53 ; Council Meetings, 6, 18, 30, 42, 

 54, 66, 79, 90; Early History, 49; Reception at 

 Natural History Museum, 90. See Story of Bird 

 Protection 



Ruskin, on Feathers and Bristles, 29 



Sale or Exchsinge of Plumage Bills, 11, 30, 52 



Sambourne, late Mr. Linley, 25 



San Remo, Bird I'rotection in, 5 



Sanctuaries for Wild Life, 57, 68, 94 



Sarasin, Monsieur Paul, 68 



Saunders, late Mr. Howard, 26 



Scherren, late Mr. Henry, 67 



Scottish Bird Protection Orders, 59 



Sea-birds Preservation Act, 2, 26 



Sea-birds, Protection of, 19 



Selborne League, 39 



Selous, Mr. Edmund, 92 



Sheffield, Prosecutions in, 93, 96 



Shetland Isles, 31, 61 



Shooting Times, 64 



Smith, Mr. H. Hamel, 17, 28 



Smuggling Plumage from India, 76 



Snow-Bunting, killed, 68, 72 



Spain, Bird Protection in, 5 



Soly, Monsieur Joseph, 34 



Sparrow, A word for the, 33 



Stamford, late Earl of, 19, 74 



Starling, Protection of the, 87 



Switzerland, Birds in, 34 



" Story of the Egret," 4, 26, 28, 79, 91. Sandwichmen, 

 io face page 73 



Sykes, Mr. Christopher, 2 



Tailby, Captain, on Protection of Owls, 53 



" Ten Years of Gamekeeping," 33 



Thirlmere, 32, 43 



Times on the Plumage Bill, 38, 40 



Tit, the useful, 43 ; Bearded, 57 



Tregarthen, Mr. J. C, 57 



Trespass in pursuit, 74 



Truth, 93 



Tunbridge Wells S.P.C.A., 37 



United States, Plumage Bill, 14, 88; Bird-caging in, 



32 ; Importation of Plovers' eggs, 6 

 Yenezuela, Heron-hunting in, 39, 51 

 Wales, Pole-trap in, 53 

 Walsingham, Lord, 63 



Watchers, The Society's, 31. Sec Watchers Supplement 

 Weed-destroyers, Birds as, 21 



Wild Birds Protection Act of 1880, 14; of 1S69, 2; 

 ol 1872, 3 ; of 1S76, 3 ; of 1S80, 14 ; of 1881, 15 ; 

 of 1894, 63 ; of 1896, 86 ; Mr. Alfred Pease's 

 Bill (1S91), 62; Sir Herbert Maxwell's Bill (1893), 

 62 ; Lord Stamford's Bill (1896), 74 ; Lord Jersey's 

 (1^95), 85; Mr. Bigwood's (1S99), 87; Lord 

 Avebury's (1908), 38, 40, 87 ; Mr. Alden's, u, 52 ; 

 Construction of the Acts of 1880-I, 22, 93 



Willow- wren. Return of the, 59 



Wynn, Senor Federico, 5 



Yorkshire, Rare Birds in, 57 



