WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACTS. l8l 



By the Act of 1894 orders may be made by County 

 Councils to prohibit 



(1) the taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs in any 



year or years in a place or places within the County ; 



(2) the taking or destroying the eggs of any specified kind 



of wild birds within the County or parts thereof. 



The Act of 1894 a ^ so empowered a Secretary of State, on 

 the representation of the Council of an administrative County, 

 to add to the schedule of the Act of 1880, Wild birds not 

 included in the schedule. 



By the Act of 1896 orders may be made " for special 

 reasons to be mentioned in the application " prohibiting the 

 taking or killing of particular kinds of Wild birds from August 

 ist to March ist, or the taking or killing of all Wild birds. 

 The Act of 1896 first enabled the Council of a County Borough 

 to make orders under the Acts. 



The Acts relating to the Protection of Wild Birds now 

 in force in the Isle of Man are more stringent than the corres- 

 ponding English Acts. The Acts are : The Isle ot Man Sea 

 Gull Preservation Act 1867 (32 Vic. 1868) and the Isle of Man 

 Wild Birds Protection Act 1887 (51 Vic. 1887). This latter 

 Act contains provisions, many of which are similar to those in 

 the English Act of 1880, as amended by the Act of 1881. 

 The close time in the Isle of Man is from ist February to the 

 ist September, and is therefore longer by two months than 

 the close time under the English Act. 



In Jersey, by the Loi sur le port d' Armes the killing of 

 Sea Gulls (mouettes ou mauves) is forbidden throughout the 

 year under the penalty of one livre sterling (i.e. about is. 3d.) 

 The killing, exposing for sale, selling, buying, carrying or 

 hawking of any sea bird is forbidden from the ist April to the 

 ist August under a similar penalty. 



