INDEX. 



Aberdeen, Prosecution for Egg-lifting, 39 



Act, Bird Protection, 9, 36, 52, 57, 91 



Africa, British, Bird Protection Law, 79 



Africa, Central, Bird Protection in, 43 



Agricultural Conference, International, 73, 83 



"Agricultural News" (Barbados), quoted, 7 



Army and Navy Stores, 7 



Art Students and Bird Life, 12 



Audubon Societies, Reports of, 3, 28, 68 ; History 

 of, 68 ; Model Law, 61 ; Agreement with 

 Milliners, 28, 70 ; Sennett Slides, 37 



Australia and Bird Protection, 38, 51, 78, 86 



Australian Branch, 40 



Aviculture, 93 



Barry Links, gorse-burning, 13 



Bass Rock, 97 



Berkshire, Birds of, 73 



" Biography of a Lie, The," 5 



Bird and Tree County Challenge Shield Compe- 

 titions, 11, 21, 37, 54, 102; Canon Rawnsley 



Bird and Tree Festivals, 29, 62 [on, 43 



Birdca'chers in Court, 4, 16, 23, 31, 39, 47, 56, 64, 76, 



Bird-catching, 3, 27, 33, 45, 52, 62, 109 [105 



Birdnesting, 3, 14, 31 



" Bird Notes from the Nile," 51 



Bird Protection at the Ornithological Congress, 

 86,91 



Bird Protection in Cape Colony, 11, 51, 79; Egypt, 

 4, 10; India, 13, 50, 77; Japan, 11 ; Malay 

 States, 1 1 ; West Indies, 7, 70, 80 



Bird Protection in Winter, 9. 48 ; on Sunday, 10 



Bird Protection Law, 9, 36, 50, 52, 57, 91 ; through- 

 out British Empire, 77, et seq. 



Bird Shelters, 12, 99 



Bird Tables, 20 



Birds as Tree Planters, 72 



Bitterns in England, 59 



Blinding Song Birds, 34, 47 



Board of Agriculture, 6 



Borrett, Mr. F. C, on Egg Collectors, 14 



Boyle, Hon. Mrs., on Bird Millinery, 19 



Bradford Scientific Association, 19 



Bullfinches in Hats, 12 



Cage Birds. Cruelty to, 8, 23, 64 



Cage-Bird Traffic, 27, 33, 61, 64, 76, 86, 94, 96 



Caging of Wild Birds, The, 33 



Canada, Bird Protection Law, 79 



Cape Colony, 11, 51, 79 



Cattle-Egret, Destruction of, 4 



Ceylon, 23 



Chapman, Mr. F. M., on Egrets, 38 ; on Pelicans, 94 



Cheshire, Prosecutions in, 76, 96, 105 



Coastguard, H.M., 6, 67 



Collector, the private, 14, 17, 26, 35, 53, 60 



Colorado, Board of Horticulture, 75 



Cormorant and Fisheries, 15, 20 



" Country Life in America," 69 



County Council Orders, 3, 7, 15, 32, 40, 48, 64, 83, 

 100 ; Operation of, 9, 10, 27, 48, 57, 72 



Courts, In the, 4, 8, 16, 23, 31, 39, 47, 56, 64, 76, 98 



Cromer, Lord, 10 



Cust, Mr. Lionel, Letter to Times, 26 



Decoy Birds, Cruelty to, 16, 23, 32, 39, 47. 56, 64, 76 



Derbyshire, Prosecutions in, 8, 105 



Durham, Prosecution in, 96 



Dutcher, Mr. W., 37, 61 



Economic Value of Birds, 4, 7, 15,23,71, 72, 73,93 



Educational Work, 43, 60 



Egg Collecting, 6, 14, 17, 31, 35 ; Sales, 17, 56 



Eggs, Illegal Taking of, 8, 16, 47, 56 ; Artificial 



or Model, 12, 31, 59 

 Egret Plumes. See " Osprey " 

 Egrets, Destruction of, 4, 20, 26, 38, 69, ico 

 Egypt, Birds of, 4, 10, 51 

 Essex, Prosecutions in, 47, 64, 106 

 Extermination, A Story of, 25 

 Farmers and Birds, 3, 15,71, 73, 101 

 Fame Islands, 12, 83 

 Felsted School, 31 

 Fife, Prosecution in, 96 

 Finchley, Birds of, 73 



Florida, Egrets of, 26, 38, 69, 100 ; Warden killed, 87 

 Forfar, Prosecution in, 96 

 Foula, 41, 83 



Game Preserving and Wild Birds, 10, 53, 71, 73 

 Gannets, 42, 71, 97 

 Gloucestershire, Prosecution in, 39 

 "Go, Lovely Bird," 19 

 Goldfinch, 9. See " Prosecutions " 

 Great Auk, 25 

 Great Skua, 41, 47 

 Grebe, 46 



Gulls and Herrings, 36, 51 

 Gulls, Nesting Grounds. 84, 85 

 Guildford. Osprey-shooting Case, 56 

 Hampshire, Prosecution in, 23 

 Helmer, Mr. T., quoted. 72 

 Herefordshire, Prosecution in, 39 

 Heron, in Cheshire, 76 ; BufF-backed, 4 

 Hertfordshire, Prosecution in, 76 

 Houghton, Rev. E. J., 19 

 Hubbard, The late Mrs., 87 



Hudson, Mr. W. H., on Bird-catching and Col- 

 lecting, 53 ; on Wheatears and Elder-trees, 72 

 " Hunting the Wren," 17 

 Hurlingham, 72 



Hutton, Captain, on House Sparrow, 83 

 Incorporation of the Society, 49 

 India, Bird Protection Law, 65 

 Indian Branch of the R.S.P.B., 13, 50. 67 

 International Bird Protection, 65 

 Irby, Colonel, 14, 67 

 Ireland, Bird Protection in, 6 

 Italy, 52 

 Jamaica 70, 80 



Japan and Bird Protection, 11, 45 

 Job, Mr. H. J., on Egret-hunting, 69, 100 

 Kekewich, Sir G., 43 

 Kent, Prosecutions in, 16. 64, 105 

 King, Mr. F., on Birds in Jamaica. 70 



