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same punishments as if they had been committed upon any 

 land in the United Kingdom, and may be dealt with, inquired 

 of, tried, and determined in any country or place in the 

 United Kingdom in which the offender shall be apprehended, 

 or be in custody, or be summoned, in the same manner in all 

 respects as if such offences had been actually committed in 

 that country or place ; and in any information or conviction 

 for any such offence the offence may be averred to have been 

 committed ** on the high seas." And in Scotland any offence 

 committed against this Act on the sea coast or at sea beyond 

 the ordinary jurisdiction of any sheriff, justice, or justices of 

 the peace, shall be held to have been committed in any 

 county abutting on such sea coast or adjoining such sea, and 

 may be tried and punished accordingly. 



9. The operation of this Act shall not extend to the 

 Island of Saint Kilda, and it shall be lawful for one of her 

 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as +-o Great Britain, 

 and for the Lord Lieutenant as to Ireland, where it shall 

 appear desirable, from time to time, upon the application of 

 the justices in quarter sessions assembled in any county to 

 exempt any such county or part or parts thereof, as to all or 

 any wild birds, from the operation of this Act ; and every 

 such order shall be published and may be proved in the 

 manner provided in the preceding section. 



SCHEDULE. 



American quail. Kittiwake. Sealark. 



Auk. Lapwing. Seamew. 



Avocet. Loon. Sea parrot. 



Bee-eater. Mallard. Sea swallow. 



Bittern. Marrot. Shearwater. 



Bonxie. Merganser. Shelldrake. 



Colin. Murre. Shoveller. 



Cornish chough. Night hawk. Skua. 



Coulterneb. Night jar. Smew. 



