GROUSE MOOES AND DEER FORESTS. 



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By a rider to the above Act, added in 1881 (44 and 45 

 Viet. cap. 51), the "possessing" of protected birds in the 

 close season is defined, and the lark is very properly added 

 to the Schedule. 



Whereas under section three of the Wild Birds' Protec- 

 tion Act, 1880, a person who within the period therein 

 mentioned exposes or offers for sale, or has in his control or 

 possession any wild bird recently killed or taken is liable 

 to certain penalties therein mentioned, subject to the follow- 

 ing exception, " unless such person shall prove that the said 

 wild bird was either killed or taken, or bought or received 

 during the period in which such wild bird could be legally 

 killed or taken, or from some person residing out of the 

 United Kingdom : " 



