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dealer and other keeper of native fauna are recjuired \i> keep 

 records on si)ecially-prepared forms. It is also incumbent, on 

 pain of licences beinj< re\oked, that shops and caji^es be kept in 

 a clean condition, that the cajttives be regularly fed and watered, 

 and that only a limited number be kept in one cage. Trappers 

 are not permitted to use at night, for the purpose of killing or 

 capturing birds or animals, electric torches, acetylene lamps, or 

 flash lights of any kind whatever. (The Act itself specifically 

 prohibits the use of cyanide — what bushmen term "rtour" — or 

 any other poi.son, so that operations at night are limited to trap- 

 ping. This stricture does not meet with the approval of shooters 

 of the unfortunate k(jalas and ojiposums.) 



Another notable Order-in-Council is one bringing into effect, 

 for the first time, a limitation on game-bags. The numbers of 

 ])articular birds which any one person may take or kill or have 

 in possession during (jne dav are as follow: — Quail, 25; Wild 

 Ducks, 20; Wild Geese, 10; Pigeons, 10; Plovers, 10; Plain 

 Turkeys, 2; Scrub Turkeys, 2. In the case of Pigeons, the 

 Squatter (Geo pimps scripta), and the fine King Pigeon, or 

 Wompoo {Meiialoprepia magnlfica) are excepted, these two 

 decimated species being now protected for the whole year. Un- 

 der the old Acts it was customary to list all protected birds and 

 animals. Now only the non-protected and partially-protected 

 species are listed. These providing a less lengthv list, and being 

 better known than most of the totally-protected species, the 

 reader can grasp the ])Osition at a glance; so that there can be 

 no i)lea of "didn't know it was protected." The only birds not 

 protected at any peri(jd in Queensland are the introduced birds, 

 also the White Cockatoos, the Cockatiel (Leptolophiis) the 

 Galah, the I>udgerigah, and the Rosella Parrots (all regarded as 

 cage-birds) and the Cormorants, Crows, and Currawong (Pied 

 Bell-Magpie), all of which are in disfa\<)ur as being trouble- 

 some. 



Sanctuaries continue t(} be i)roclaimed, notably about Rock- 

 ham|)ton, where members of the Central Queensland Native 

 Birds Protection Association are going on with their good work. 

 Mr. H. Tryon, a member of the Council of the R..\.(3.U., who 

 was in Rockhampton recently, and who was welcomed by the 

 Association, states that he has not seen aquatic birds to better 

 advantage than about the Rockhampton sanctuaries. Prior to 

 that, Mr. W. I>. Alexander, another member of the Council, who 

 s[)ent a day or two at Rockhampton on his way to the prickly 

 pear laboratory at West wood, was (iri\en about the district 

 lagoons by officers of the .Xssociation. Mr. .Mexander was well 

 pleased with all he saw. Previously, again, the State Secretary 

 was >imilarlv entertained by officers of the .Vssociation, under 

 whose ausi>ices he lectured when en route to Dunk Island. 



The value f)f native birds was n«)t lost sight of by the .\us- 

 tralian Forestry Conference which sat in Brisbane in April, and 

 to which llu' Slate Secretary was a delegate from the Queens- 



