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SELBORNIANA. 
Bird Protection Orders. — We have received from the 
Colonial Office notification of a rule issued in the Federated 
Malay States of Selangor, Perak and Negri Sembilan, adding to 
the schedule of the local protection enactment the following six 
birds : Mdanoperdix nigri, Tropicoperdix charltoni, Caloperdix octilea, 
Osmotreron, fulvicollis, Treron nipalensis, and Macropygia ruficeps. 
From the Home Office we have received an order, dated 
November 29, with reference to the County of Nottingham, pro- 
tecting throughout the year a number of species, including all 
Buntings, Owls, Warblers and Woodpeckers, the Bullfinch, 
Chaffinch, Kingfisher, Linnet, Goldfinch, Nightjar, and Osprey, 
and adding the Robin and all species of Wren to the schedule of 
the Act. We have also received an order, dated December 7, 
with reference to Glamorgan, protecting the Wild Duck from 
February i to July i, and prohibiting the taking or destroying 
of the eggs of Goldfinch, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Nightingale, 
Nightjar, Owls, Oyster-catcher, Woodpeckers, and some other 
species. 
The St. Kilda Wren. — “ The Special Protection Act passed 
at the end of last Session for the birds of St. Kilda, has induced 
dealers to put their nests and clutches of eggs of the native 
wren on the market. Yesterday at Stevens’ Great Rooms, 
King Street, Covent Garden, fifteen clutches, with nests, taken 
in 1903, or in the last breeding season, were sold. The highest 
price made was los., and the lowest 6s. ; the total for the fifteen 
nests was £6 3s., which works out at a trifle over 8s. each. The 
Protection Act was passed at the instance of The Macleod, 
proprietor of the Island, and applies to all birds except the 
gannet, fulmar petrel, razor bill, guillemot, and puffin, used by 
the inhabitants for food. The feathers of these five species form 
an important article of export, and the fulmar petrel yields a 
valuable supply of oil.” — Standard, December 10, 1904. 
German Anti-Plumage League. — An International League 
for the Protection of Birds has recently been organised by the 
Countess von Groeben at Berlin, and Princess Metternich- 
Sandor at Vienna. Among the members are representatives 
of the highest aristocratic and diplomatic world of Germany and 
Austria, who are pledged to abstain from wearing feathers, wings, 
or any other portions of birds except ostrich feathers and the 
plumes of game-birds or poultry. They also undertake to carry 
on an active propaganda for the Society. The annual subscrip- 
tion is 50 pf. (6d.), and 20 m. (;^i) qualifies for life-membership. 
The central offices of the League are at Berlin and Vienna. The 
National Committee of the Audubon Societies, which has done 
such good work on these lines in the United States, has promised 
its adhesion, and it is to be hoped that the distinguished patron- 
