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Investigation Society, 



Edited by 

 WALTER E. COLLINGE, D Sc , F.L.S , F.E.S.. M.B O U. 



Vol. 1. 



MARCH, 1920. 



No. 2. 



ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS: 



Is the Magpie an Injurious Bird? 



By L. T, Thornton 



CONTENTS. 



NOTES and NEWS 

 CORRESPONDENCE : 



Wild Birds: Their relation to the Farm 

 and the Farmer 



By Walter E. Gollinge. D Sc, F.L.S. 



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The Departmental Committee and the 

 Bird-Catcher ... 



Protection of Plovers Eggs 



Birds of the Wye Valley. By Wm. Blake. 29 LOCAL BRANCHES: 



Pond Frequenting Birds as Seed Carriers 

 II. By the Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe- 

 Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.E.S 



EDITORIAL 



St Andrews 



31 REVIEWS: 



NOTES : 



Increase of Long-tailed Tit. 



Walter E. Gollinge;— E. R. G. 



Mortality ot Common Terns in 1919. 



Dr. H C. Williamson. 



The Food of the Brown Owl R. A Leyland 



Habits of Brown or Tawny Owl E. Little. 



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Bird Behaviour (Frank Finn) 



Birds in Town and Village (W. H Hudson) 



Synoptical List of the Acciptres (H. Kirke 

 Swann) 



Animal Life Under Water (Francis Ward) 

 Bibliography of British Ornithology 

 (Mullens, Kirke Swann, and Jourdain) 



CURRENT LITERATURE 



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