SALE OR EXCHANGE OF PLUMAGE BILL, 1911. 



The following are the principal clauses of the " Bill to 

 Prohibit the Sale, Hire, or Exchange of the Plumage and Skins 

 of Certain Wild Birds/' which was introduced into the House 

 of Commons by Mr. Alden, and read a first time on February 

 22nd, 1911 : 



1. (1) Any person who, after the commencement of this Act, 

 shall have in his possession for the purpose of sale or exchange the 

 plumage or skin, or any part of the plumage or skin, of any dead wild 

 bird imported or brought into the United Kingdom on or after the 

 first day of January one thousand nine hundred and twelve, which is 

 included in the schedule to this Act, or not exempted from the opera- 

 tion of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall on summary 

 conviction be liable for the first offence to a penalty of not exceeding 

 five pounds, and for every subsequent offence to a penalty of not 

 exceeding twenty-five pounds, and in every case the court shall order 

 the forfeiture and destruction of the articles in respect of which the 

 offence has been committed. 



2. and 5. Same intention as in Bill of 1908. 



SCHEDULE. 

 Birds -of -Paradise . 

 Humming Birds. 

 Pheasants. 



With the following exceptions : 



The Green Pheasant, the Ring-necked Pheasant, and the 



Common Pheasant. 

 Grebes. 

 Pittas. 



Crowned Pigeons (Gourince). 

 Condors. 

 Toucans. 

 Albatrosses. 

 Terns. 

 Lyre Birds. 

 Emus. 

 Rheas. 

 Owls. 



Kingfishers. 

 Stork Tribe. 

 Heron Tribe. 

 Ibises and Spoonbills. 

 Todies. 

 Chatterers. 

 Trogons. 

 Rollers. 

 Motmots. 

 Macaws. 



