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Title: Bird notes and news
Identifier: birdnotesnews1190305roya (find matches)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
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Publisher: London, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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BIRD NOTES *md NEWS Circular fetter issitetr fterio&icallu b^ tlje Howtl J^orietg for tlje ^rntertion nf fBtrtia. CONTENTS. Penguins. Council Meeting. County Council Orders. A Word for the Sparrow. The Gtillsl and Terns on Walney, Lancashire (1905). A Lincolnshire Gull Colony. Notes- Bird Protection at the Congress. Penguin Oil. The Cage Bird Traffic. The Fauna of New Soiith Wales. The Signalman and the Birds. Donations to the Society. Feathered Women. Plume Sales. International Ornithological Congress. In the Courts. New Leaflets. Notices. No. 11.) London : 3, Hanover Square, W. (OCTOBER, 1905. ggf
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s iiiiiiUBUt,. MCCtfilsoi EMPEROR PENGUINS. From a Drawing by E. A. Wilson, M.B.. F.Z.S. PENGUINS. By Dr. E. A. Wilson, of the Discoveiy. ^H^URING the recent Ornitho- #!§$ logical Congress penguins came in for a large and well- merited share of attention ; and it must have been a matter of the greatest possible satisfaction to any- one who has come in contact with them in the places where they are boiled down by the thousand for their oil, to see the question so energetically considered, and to think that there is some immediate pros- pect of legislation which will check this inconsiderate slaughter. Our interests, however, should not, I think, be confined to the penguins of those islands which come under the legislation of New Zealand and Australia—for there are many others that are equally open to attack ; and when the penguins that are nearer home are protected, there is no doubt that the more remote birds will come in for their share of un- desirable attention. There are in all some seventeen different species, which are widely distributed over the land and water of the southern hemisphere. There are certain penguins in the Galapagos Islands, as nearly as possible on the equator, and these

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