Text Appearing Before Image: s dramatic subtlety. Observer, July 14th, 1912. Price 2d., post-free. The Story of the Egret. Probably no set of photographs has ever donebetter work than The Story of the Egret, asphotographed by Mr. Mattingley. A bijou edition,eight pages, duodecimo size, is now issued by theR.S.P.B., and is especially suitable for enclosingin letters, for placing on drawing-room tables, andfor other purposes for which the larger albums andthe wall-sheets are not convenient. One copy Id., by post l^d. ; one doz. 9d. THE ROYAL SOCIETY FORTHE PROTECTION OF BIRDS, 23. QUEEN ANNES GATE. S.W. BntD NoTBS AND News (issued quarterly) willbe sent post free to any address for Is. per annum,payable in advance ; single numbers, 3d. To Members of the Society subscribing os. andupwards per annum it is forwarded gratis and postfree. Printed by Witherby & Co., 326, High Holborn, W.C, andpublished by the Royal Society for thb Protection of Rird>;,23, Queen Annes Gate, S.W. BIRD NOTES AND NEWS. Vol. V.. No. 5. Text Appearing After Image: Photo. Elliott & Fry. Copyright. THE RIGHT HON. EARL CUR20N OF KEDLESTON, Vice-President Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Chairman of the Annual Meeting, 1913. Bird Notes <^ News ISSUED QUARTERLY BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY:: FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS Vol. V. ) MARCH, 1913. (No. 5. Birds at the Lighthouse. One of the greatest of all dangers (tomigrating birds) is the numerous lighthousesand Hght-vessels on and off our owti and othercoasts. These, under certain conditions ofweather are veritable shambles. Those whohave not witnessed a bird-night at alight-station cannot form any conceptionof the appalling loss of life that takes place.Studies in Bird Migration (W. Eagle Clarke). For years this great and grievous des-truction of bird life has been noted anddeplored. Mr. Eagle Clarke estimates itat hundreds of thousands in a seasonat the British stations alone, and he de-scribes how he has watched through awhole night the oncoming streams ofbirds flying at and around the lant
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