12 AUGUST 1922, Page 26

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has printed,

under the title of The Eggs of British Wild Birds and the Collector, some correspondence arising out of a recent speech in which Lord Buxton commented on the large numbers of wild birds' eggs exhibited at an Oological Club dinner. It is made clear that most of the eggs—of the Red-backed Shrike and the Fly- catchers—had been collected over a long period, and that both the Oological Club and the British Ornithologists' Union, of which the Club forms a part, strongly deprecate the action of any member who disregards the Acts for the protection of wild birds.