. Bird notes . ther, in South Australia the Chaffinch, whichwas introduced some years ago with other European birds, hasbecome so undesirable that under the Game I^aw of 1900 it isincluded in the list of injurious birds denied 2 of the Lacey Act, requires permits for all foreignbirds imported into the United States. It would be a calamityfor any imported species to gain a foot hold amongst ournative avifauna. To support this conclusion the direfuleffects of the Mynah in the Pacific Islands, the Starling andChaffinch in Australia, and the English Sparrow in the UnitedStates a
. Bird notes . ther, in South Australia the Chaffinch, whichwas introduced some years ago with other European birds, hasbecome so undesirable that under the Game I^aw of 1900 it isincluded in the list of injurious birds denied 2 of the Lacey Act, requires permits for all foreignbirds imported into the United States. It would be a calamityfor any imported species to gain a foot hold amongst ournative avifauna. To support this conclusion the direfuleffects of the Mynah in the Pacific Islands, the Starling andChaffinch in Australia, and the English Sparrow in the UnitedStates are strongly commented upon. If there was a corresponding Exclusion Act controllingother biped foreigners, who are rapidly acclimatizedinto citizens—within forty-eight hours—indifferently to thepossibility of encroaching upon the food-supply of a nativespecies, much of the undesirable importation would be,with marked advantage, curtailed, or included in the list of injurious etc. Poephii^a cincta. BIRD NOTES. J. G- Ke-ulemans del. et. litL. West,Newman imp. Ampelis gapp-alus. All rights reserved?^ [SEPTEMBER, 1906 BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAI. OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. ^be Maywing. {Ampelis garrulus).By W. T. Greene, , , Ornithologists of old, as well as at least onedramatist, must have had somewhat hazy notionsabout geography, or they would not, in the one case,have made Bohemia an island, or, in the other, havecoupled its name with that of a bird which is an in-habitant of the circum-polar regions of our hemi-sphere. However that may be, the Waxwing, as wecall it to-day, was formerly known by the name ofBohemian Chatterer, A chatterer—(^Ampelisgarrulus)—most undoubtedly it is, but it has no more con-nection with the province of the Austrian Empire ofwhich it was given the name, than with our owncountry, or, indeed, less, for some of these birds visitEngland almost every winter, arriving sometimes inconsiderable numbers, which, alas ! are sadly reducedby gunne
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