. Bird notes and news. CUTT^K LUfJDY ISL/^D. BIRD NOTES ™d NEWS. ©tmtlar Setter issued ^motocallij b|j tlje j^orietrj for tlje ^rntertiott of giros. CONTENTS. Three Islands. The St. Kilda Act. Bird Protection in Central Africa. "Nature Study" in Schools. Canon Rawnsley on Eural Life. Mr. 0-. F. Watts, Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington. School Leagues in France and Switzerland. Work in Japan. Nature Study. The Magistrates and Bird Catchers. Plumes and Plume-Birds. The Plume Sales. In the Courts. Bird Protection in Winter. Lecture Season, 1904-5. County Council Orders. The Decrease
. Bird notes and news. CUTT^K LUfJDY ISL/^D. BIRD NOTES ™d NEWS. ©tmtlar Setter issued ^motocallij b|j tlje j^orietrj for tlje ^rntertiott of giros. CONTENTS. Three Islands. The St. Kilda Act. Bird Protection in Central Africa. "Nature Study" in Schools. Canon Rawnsley on Eural Life. Mr. 0-. F. Watts, Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington. School Leagues in France and Switzerland. Work in Japan. Nature Study. The Magistrates and Bird Catchers. Plumes and Plume-Birds. The Plume Sales. In the Courts. Bird Protection in Winter. Lecture Season, 1904-5. County Council Orders. The Decrease of Swallows. No. 7.] London, 3, Hanover Square, W. [OCTOBER, THREE ISLANDS. HREE remarkably interesting little islands, each associated with a special and characteristic bird, have recently engaged the attention of the Society for the Protection of Birds—St. Kilda, the one habitat of the St. Kilda Wren; Foula, the most im- portant of the two or three breeding stations of the Great Skua; and Lundy, the only English home of the Gannet or Solan Goose. Something has been said about St. Kilda in earlier numbers of this paper. The outermost of the Hebrides, fifty miles from the mainland, it was in former times almost cut off from communication with the outer world, and entirely so through the long winter; its few in- habitants (some twenty families) lived a hard, rough life, dependent for existence mainly on the eggs and flesh of sea-birds. The coming of the unwonted stranger meant an outbreak of measles or influenza among the susceptible islanders ; and a visit to its shores was an ex- perience to afford material for a book. Now- a-days, conditions have somewhat improved; life is a shade less dour, farming as an industry is added to fishing and fowling, and steamboats touch the coast. As a set-off to the benefits of communication, the trading collector has come with his eye on the rare birds, chief among which are the St. Kilda Wren and the Fork-tailed Petrel; and it is
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