Identifier: birdnotesnews06roya (find matches)
Title: Bird notes and news
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: London, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Bird-Protection in, 30; Bird Census, 117;Biological Survey, 100; Bird and Tree work,94; Department of Agriculture, 115; NaturalHistory Museum, 96; Plume-Trade, 5 Uttoxeter Advertiser, quoted, 103 Vaughan, Canon, on Birds in the War Area, 88 Venezuela and the Plume-Trade, 6, 27, 49 War, The, Effect on Bird-Life, 56, 78, 101 ; Bird-notes from, 79, 87, 102; R.S.P.B. and, 43,47, 82, 92, 94, 97, 113 Watchers Fund, 33, 47, 71 Weaver Birds, Destruction of, 115 Weldon, Bishop, on the Plumage Bill, 18 West Indies, Bird-Protection in, 118 Westminster Gazette, quoted, 112 Whitethroat, Nest at Mapledurham Lock, 103 Willis-Bund, Mr., on Swallows and Anglers, 44 Willow-Warbler, Nesting-site of, 103 Winged Anthology, A, 50 Wireworm, Birds and, 115 Womens International Congress and Plumage Bill, 27 Woodlands, British, 52 Woodpecker, Utility of, 80, 115 Worcestershire C.C. and Goldfinches, 106 Wynne, Bird-Protection Work of Seiior, 92 Yorkshire Naturalists Union, 117 BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. Vol. VI.. No.
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Photo. Swain e. Copyright. THE RIGHT HON. SIR SYDNEY BUXTON, G.C.M.G.,Vice-President and Hon. Treasurer, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Bird Notes & News ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY:: :: FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS :: :: Vol. VI. ) SPRING, 1914. (No. 1. Sir Sydney Buxton and Bird Protection. The Right Hon. Sir Sydney Buxton,G.C.M.G., who has been appointed tosucceed Lord Gladstone as Governor-General of South Africa, has been, asis well known, an active worker in thecause of Bird Protection for many years,and in many phases of the question. Itwould perhaps be hardly too much tosay that, studiously moderate and quietas he has been in all that he has writtenand spoken on the subject, there ishardly a branch of the work which hasnot received from him stimulus andsupport. The caging of birds, the guard-ing of rare species, the charm and utilityof British bird-life, the preservation ofthe rare and finely-plumaged birds ofother lands, the prevention of crueltrappin

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