. Bird notes and news. County Council Orders Plume Trade Figures f The Buff-hacked Heron In the Courts. The Man with a Gun. Lectures, 1903. Picture Postcards. London, 3, Hanover Square, Sntrobuctorp. [EMBERS of the Society for the Protection of Birds have been asking for some time past for a periodical publication through which news of the Society's doings, to- gether with items of general interest to bird protectors, could reach them, and in which the various activities of the branches might be chronicled. Now that the Society has entered upon the fourteenth year of its existence, and has
. Bird notes and news. County Council Orders Plume Trade Figures f The Buff-hacked Heron In the Courts. The Man with a Gun. Lectures, 1903. Picture Postcards. London, 3, Hanover Square, Sntrobuctorp. [EMBERS of the Society for the Protection of Birds have been asking for some time past for a periodical publication through which news of the Society's doings, to- gether with items of general interest to bird protectors, could reach them, and in which the various activities of the branches might be chronicled. Now that the Society has entered upon the fourteenth year of its existence, and has enrolled over 5000 associates and many thousand members, the development of the work seems to warrant the issue of such a leaflet, and it is hoped that it will merit a kind reception. HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. The Society for the Protection of Birds, founded in February, 1889, "in the hope of inducing a considerable number of women, of all ranks and ages, to unite in discouraging the enormous destruction of bird life exacted by milliners and others for purely decorative pur- poses" (to quote from the first annual report), was not the earliest protest raised against this shame- ful slaughter of brilliant and beautiful birds. Perhaps the first strong impulse to the movement was given by Professor Newton's memorable impeachment of the women-wearers of seabirds' wings at the British Association meeting in 1868. A few years later the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, now a life associate of our Society, in a letter to the Times, censured especially the wearing of humming-birds. A plumage league was sub- sequently formed, of which the Hon. Mrs. Boyle Skfy ' flv was an earnest promoter, and later still the Selborne Society included the preservation of birds among the many admirable articles of its comprehensive agenda. The founder of the Society for the Pro- tection of Birds was Mrs. R. W. Williamson, of Didsbury, still a vice-president and hon. branch secretary. It began very quietly
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