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BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. 



COUNCIL MEETING. 



The Council met at the Middlesex Cluildhall 

 Westminster, on January 27th, 1911, when 

 there were present : Mr. Montagu Sharpe 

 (in the Chair), Mr. Ernest Bell, Miss Chfton, 

 Dr. Drewitt, the Hon. Mrs. Drewitt, Miss 

 Hall, Hon. Mrs. Henniker, Mr. Hudson, Mr. 

 Hastings Lees, Mr. F. E. Lemon (Hon. 

 Secretary), Mrs. Lemon, Mrs. Fuller-Maitland, 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, Miss Pollock, and the 

 Secretary (Miss Gardiner). 



The Hon. Secretary's Report stated 

 that lectures had been given at Highwood 

 (Drawing-room Meeting) and Hursley, Hants, 

 by the Rev. J. E. Kelsall ; Hampstead 

 Garden Suburb, by Mr. Hastings Lees ; 

 Fifeshire, by Miss Rintoul ; West Kirby 

 and elsewhere, Mr. Lewis Jones. Six Bird 

 Protection Orders had been issued. The 

 catalogue of a sale of Eggs at Stevens' Sale- 

 rooms, on January 31st, included the egg of a 

 White-tailed Eagle, said to have been taken 

 in Shetland in May, 1909. As the eggs of 

 this bird are protected by law, and by the 

 Society's Watchers, it was agreed that a 

 protest be lodged against the sale. (In reply 

 it was stated by Mr. Stevens that the date 

 given was a mistake, the egg having been 

 taken before the Order was made.) 



The Finance and General Purposes 

 Committee reported that Mrs. Yorke Smith 

 had consented to act as H.L.S. for Sidmouth ; 

 Mr. F. D. Power, M.R.C.S., for Brixton and 

 Dulwich ; and Miss Charters, in succession 

 to Miss Marston, resigned, for Leicester. 

 The following new Fellows were elected : — 



Mrs. George Browne (London, N.W. ), W. Comyns 

 Clifton (Romford), Mrs. Pierse-Duncombe (Holling- 

 ton Park, St. Leonards-on-Sea); Professor Kennedy 

 J. P. Orton (Bangor), Mrs. Ralj^h Price (London, W. ) 

 The following were elected Members : — 



Miss Violet Bagshaw (Birkenshaw), Edward C. 

 Casey (Petersfield), F. C. Gardiner (Glasgow), 

 Eustace Illingworth (Keighley), Miss Jackson 

 (Patrieroft, Manchester), H. A. Mason, M.D. 

 Duffield), Mi.« C. H. Rawlins (Ritgeley), Miss 



Sharp (Southsea), Colonel Spottiswoode (Southsea), 

 Mrs. C. E. Sykes (Leominster), Miss Taylor (Hum- 

 shaugh), Miss Primrose Wethered (Esher), Mrs. 

 Arnold White (Farnham Common), Mrs. Wood 

 (Hvnnshaxigh), Rev. G. Edward Yoimg (London, W.) 

 Life Member : The Lady Evelyn Mason (Witney). 



The Watchers Committee reported on 

 arrangements made for Watching during 

 the spring of 1911, and on special work to be 

 undertaken by the Society's Inspectors in 

 the protection of rare birds , and in the m.atter 

 of bird-catching and bird-shops. Attention 

 was also called to the agitation promoted 

 in certain sea-coast places for the removal 

 of Gulls from the protection of the Acts, and 

 to the consumption of Quail during close- 

 time. 



General Business. — Mrs. R. Fuller- 

 Maitland was elected a Member of Council. 

 The Annual Report, statements of Accounts, 

 and arrangements for Annual Meeting were 

 approved. Among other matters discussed 

 Avere the Importation of Plumage Prohibition 

 Bill, and the reply to the plume-trade's 

 recently published statements in defence of 

 the traffic ; and also the injury done by 

 birds and by insects to fruit and other 

 crops, and the work of Sparrow Clubs. 



A meeting of the Pubhcation Committee 

 was held at 23, Queen Anne's Gate, on 

 February 17th. 



OBITUARY. 



In the death, on Feb. 8th, 1911, of 

 Earl Cawdor, who was a Vice-President of 

 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 

 the Society has lost a supporter who was 

 keenly interested in the preservation of wild 

 birds, and to whom is due much of the success 

 of efforts made to protect the surviving 

 Kites of Great Britain. On several occasions 

 it was hoped that Lord Cawdor would take 

 the Chair at an Annual Meeting, but ill- 

 health and other circumstances prevented 

 him from doing so. 



