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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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8, 105, 107, 120 Swallows Winter Home, face page 49 Switzerland, Bird Protection in, 22 ; Plume-Tradein, 116 Terschelling Lighthouse, 66 Thijsse, Heer J. P., 65, 89 Thirlmere, Birds at, 51 Thomson, Professor Landsborough, 76 Times, on Waxing and Waning Species, 56 Tits and Nuthatch, 71 Traffic in Birds Plumage, The, 114 Trees, Six Friends of the, 20 United States, Federal Bird Protection for, 86 ;Plume-Trade in, 50, 67, 84, 102, 118 Victims of the Plvune-Trade, Some, face page 113 Victor of Hohenlohe, Princess, 9. Vineyards and Birds, 18 Wagtail, Caged, 29 Washington State, Seal of, 44 Watchers Committee of the R.S.P.B., 25, 42, 73,89, 105, 118 Water, Provision of, for Birds, 29 Watts, Mr. R. H., 87 Weeks-McLean Bill, 86 Wild Birds Protection Acts, Departmental Com-mittee to consider, 120 Wildfowlers Association and Lapwing, 29 Wilson, Dr. E. A., 74 Winter Food for Birds, 57 Woodpeckers and Forestry, 20, 85 Worthington, Mr. Percy, on Birds of Paris, 1 BIRD NOTES AND NEWS, Vol. V., No.
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l^hnto. Mauil b^ Fox. /uyfi^^-*^^ HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF RUTLAND,Vice-President Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Chairman of Annual Meeting, 1912. Bird Notes <^ News Vol. V. ) ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY:: :: FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS :: :: MARCH, 1912. (No. I. A Holiday with the Birds in Paris. The Essay for which the R.S.P.B. Silver Medal in the Public-school EssayCompetition, 1911, was awarded to Percy Worthington (Harrow). The second largest city in Europe isscarcely the spot which one would natur-ally choose for studying birds in theirwild state ; yet there are probably fewparts of France which can boast so largea number of species in so small an area.The principal haunt of the birds in Parisis the Bois de Boulogne, which Ues onthe west side of the city, between it andthe river Seine. It comprises an areaof 2,000 acres of woodland, intermixedwith open grassy spaces, the largest ofthese being the racecourses of Auteuil andLongchamps, Water—absence of whic

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