BIRD NOTES *md NEWS 



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CONTENTS. 



Penguins. 



Council Meeting. 



County Council Orders. 



A Word for the Sparrow. 



The Gtillsl and Terns on Walney, 



Lancashire (1905). 

 A Lincolnshire Gull Colony. 



Notes- 

 Bird Protection at the Congress. 

 Penguin Oil. 

 The Cage Bird Traffic. 

 The Fauna of New Soiith Wales. 

 The Signalman and the Birds. 

 Donations to the Society. 



Feathered Women. 



Plume Sales. 



International Ornithological Congress. 



In the Courts. 



New Leaflets. 



Notices. 



No. 11.] 



London : 3, Hanover Square, W. 



[OCTOBER, 1905. 



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EMPEROR PENGUINS. 

 From a Drawing by E. A. Wilson, M.B.. F.Z.S. 



PENGUINS. 



By Dr. E. A. Wilson, of the Discoveiy. 



^H^URING the recent Ornitho- 

 #!§$ logical Congress penguins 

 came in for a large and well- 

 merited share of attention ; and it 

 must have been a matter of the 

 greatest possible satisfaction to any- 

 one who has come in contact with 

 them in the places where they are 

 boiled down by the thousand for 

 their oil, to see the question so 

 energetically considered, and to think 

 that there is some immediate pros- 

 pect of legislation which will check 

 this inconsiderate slaughter. 



Our interests, however, should not, 

 I think, be confined to the penguins 

 of those islands which come under 

 the legislation of New Zealand and 

 Australia — for there are many others 

 that are equally open to attack ; and 

 when the penguins that are nearer 

 home are protected, there is no 

 doubt that the more remote birds 

 will come in for their share of un- 

 desirable attention. 



There are in all some seventeen 

 different species, which are widely 

 distributed over the land and 

 water of the southern hemisphere. 

 There are certain penguins in the 

 Galapagos Islands, as nearly as 

 possible on the equator, and these 



