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and destruction of the articles in respect of which the offence 

 has been committed. 



" Pi'ovided that this section shall not apply — 

 ^' {a) to anything done by virtue of a licence issued from 

 time to time by the Board of Trade under such 

 conditions and regulations as they may prescribe for 

 the purpose of supplying specimens of any birds not 

 included in the schedule to any particular natural 

 history or other museum or for the purpose of 

 definite scientific research ; or 

 '' (/>») to the plumage, skin, or body, or to any parts 

 thereof, of any bird not included in the schedule to 

 this Act and forming part of the wearing apparel 

 being hona fide the property of and either actually 

 in the use of or accompanying any person entering 

 the United Kingdom and not being for the purpose 

 of sale or exchange. Every such person shall if so 

 required make a written declaration to this effect. 

 " 2. On the advice and with the consent of the Privy 

 Council the name of any other foreign wild bird may at any 

 time be added to or removed from the schedule to this Act 

 by notice published in the ' Gazette,' and thereupon the 

 provisions of this Act shall take effect as if such bird had 

 been included in or removed from the schedule to this Act. 

 "The following is the schedule referred to in the Bill : — 



" Birds Exempted. 

 "1. Ostriches. 

 "2. Eider Ducks. 

 " 3. Wild birds used as articles of diet/' 



Mr. Douglas Carruthers. — Writing from his winter- 

 quarters at Samarkand (see above, p. 388), on April 14th, 

 Mr. Carruthers says that he was just starting on a five- 

 months' expedition into Eastern Bokhara, " where there is a 

 curious mixture of country on the borders of Afghanistan — 

 dense jungle in the low valleys and some of the highest 

 mountains in Central Asia.'"* He had collected some 500- 



