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right direction is the prohibition of using live pigeons in shooting 

 contests, which has hitherto been a prominent source of popular 

 enjoyment. 



[In Austria-Hungary, strange to say, the preponderance in 

 respect to bird protection is with the second partner in the dual 

 monarchy. We, in America, generally speaking, usually have no 

 very high opinion of Hungary and things Hungarian, but as regards 

 this movement, we must take off our hats to them. Hungary 

 is nearly, if not quite, at the top of the ladder in bird protection. 

 What is being introduced and tried out in this respect in other 

 countries for the last five years, has been known and established 

 in Hungary for many years past.] This is owing to the energetic 

 and devoted and practical leadership the movement has found 

 here early, in the person of the venerable Otto Herman, who with 

 youthful energy, is still keeping it at the height of perfection. 

 Owing to the initiation of the Royal Hungarian "Zentrale" for 

 bird protection, the International Agricultural Congress at Rome 

 in 1909 passed several noteworthy resolutions aiming at the better 

 protection of birds in the various countries represented. Surely, 

 a gratifying achievement. 



In Austria itself, the other part of the dual monarchy, the council 

 of Vienna, the capital, leads in putting ordinances on the statute 

 books, which aim at protecting and attracting birds. Permits 

 to trap birds for cage purposes are no longer issued in Vienna. 

 Lower Austria has also recently passed a bird law, in which all 

 birds are divided into three kinds, useful, harmful and indifferent. 

 The first may not be caught or killed throughout the year; the 

 harmful ones may be taken at any time, subject, however, to the 

 limitations placed on this by the game and fish police; for the 

 indifferent ones a close season lasting from February 1 to September 

 15 is established. 



In Norway it is especially the Christiania society for the pro- 

 tection of animals, under the excellent leadership of the royal 

 equerry Sverdrup, that is doing telling work. In a circular ad- 

 dressed to all the town and village councils in the country, these 

 were made acquainted with the leading principles of bird pro- 

 tection. The monthly journal of the society, ' Dyrenesven,' 

 in each number contains essays and news concerning bird protection. 



