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tion is continued under the leadership of the "Soalen" society, 

 of which Mrs. (Col.) Malvine Mehrn is president. In a circular 

 to all the bishops of the country, entitled " Church and protection 

 of animals," the attention of the reverend gentlemen is drawn to 

 the ethical aspect of the protection of animals in general and that 

 of birds in particular. Many illustrated lectures are held before 

 schools and societies, and the audiences at such are always large 

 and appreciative. In a memorandum sent to the board of direc- 

 tors of the royal railways, it was proposed that the railway embank- 

 ments should be planted with trees and berry-bearing shrubs, to 

 furnish the birds with nesting sites and winter food. 



England, with her colonies, affords a very gratifying example 

 of systematic and earnest endeavors in bird protection, success- 

 fully directed and carried out. The bill which Lord Avebury 

 introduced into Parliament, designed to combat the evils arising 

 out of the sale of birds' skins and feathers, found a ready response 

 in many circles, and Mr. James Buckland of the Royal Colonial 

 Institute, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 

 are leaving no stone unturned to bring the matter to a successful 

 finish. In the meantime Lord Crewe, Minister of State for the 

 Colonies, has called together a commission of experts of the Colonial 

 Office and of the National Museum of Natural History to devise 

 ways and means how the wholesale destruction of birds in the 

 interest of fashion may best be stopped in the different parts of 

 the empire. The above named society also merits praise for issu- 

 ing, under the English title 'How to Attract and Protect Wild 

 Birds', the well known book by Hiesemann, the appropriate 

 foreword of which having been written by the skilful pen of the 

 Duchess of Bedford. At the same time a sales agency for the 

 food and nesting appliances designed by Baron von Berlepsch 

 has been opened. A noticeable resolution was adopted by the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, at a special general meeting, namely 

 this, that a member who is found guilty of having killed or having 

 aided and abetted the killing of certain birds, is to be suspended 

 from membership. 



[In Canada the status of bird protection is, generally speaking, 

 satisfactory. Most provinces have bird laws upon their statute 

 books which are nearly or entirely like the Audubon model law. 



