2o8 THE RABBIT 



subject to any proceedings or penalties in pursuance 

 of any other statute. For example, if under this Act 

 he were to take out a ten-shilling gun licence and 

 proceed to shoot rabbits, he could not be prosecuted 

 under the Game Licences Act i860, for shooting 

 rabbits without a game licence. 



The tenth section has reference to the killing of 

 ground game on days on which under other statutes 

 the killing of game is prohibited (as for example on a 

 Sunday or on Christmas Day, or at night), and is to 

 be read in harmony with such statutes. 



Although rabbits may be killed all the year round, 

 there is no close time for hares except Sundays and 

 Christmas Day, when no dog, gun, net or other 

 engine may be used to take them (i & 2 Will. IV. 

 cap. 32). 



The Hares Preservation Act of 1892, however, 

 makes it illegal to sell or expose for sale any hare 

 or leveret during the months of March, April, May, 

 June or July, although this does not apply to foreign 

 hares which may have been imported. The marked 

 omission of the word ' kill ' in a statute framed osten- 

 sibly for the purpose of preserving hares, will pro- 

 bably strike most people as a rediictio ad absurdum. 

 In Ireland, however, by 42 & 43 Vict., c. 23, no 

 one may kill or take a hare between April 20 and 



