BIRD NOTES ™d NEWS 



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^volution oi fBtrfca. 



International Bird Protection. 



Council Meetings. 



Obituary. 



The Audubon Societies. 



Ostrich Plucking. 



The Extermination of the Egret. 



The Plume Trade. 



Birds in Jamaica. 



Birds in New Zealand. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes — 



The Pole Trap. 

 Caution to Keepers. 

 Candles as Building Material. 

 The Protection Acts. 

 Birds as Tree Planters. 

 From Rhodesia. 

 Hurlingham. 



Notes— continued. 



Birds of the District. 



Agricultural Conference. 



Ornithological Congress. 

 "Methods of Game Preserving." 

 Birds and Agriculture. 

 In the Courts. 

 Protection of "Wild Birds throughout 



the British Empire. 



No. 10.] 



London, 3, Hanover Square, W. 



[JULY, 1905. 



BIRLS OF PARADISE. 



(From the picture by Miss N. Hadden, by permission of the Proprietors 

 of " The Sphere.") 



INTERNATIONAL BIRD 

 PROTECTION. 



j^LTHOUGH the Interna- 

 H tional Ornithological Con- 

 gress, held this year for the 

 first time in London, is principally 

 concerned with the scientific 

 aspects of bird-study, it is earnestly 

 to be hoped that its meetings in 

 general, as well as those of the 

 Protection and Economic Section 

 in particular, will do something 

 to advance Bird Protection. 



The necessity for international 

 agreement and co-operation in the 

 matter becomes every day more 

 apparent. Each country may 

 and should have its own bird- 

 preservation laws, just as each 

 English county may and should 

 have its own Bird Protection 

 Order ; but without some mutual 

 agreement, some common under- 

 standing, and some co-ordinated 

 law, the individual action of state 

 or county must at times utterly 

 fail of its purpose. It is of little 

 practical use to protect Goldfinches 

 in Suffolk, while the dealer has 

 only to cross the border to net 

 them in Norfolk. It is little use to 

 protect Swallows by law and senti- 

 ment in England and Germany 



