296 BIRD LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



Creatures ferse naturse are presumed to have no indi- 

 vidual marks whereby they may be recognized, and they 

 are held to belong to the land on which for the time being 

 they are found. It follows that a sportsman cannot claim 

 an animal or bird that escapes from his gun into another 

 person's property. 



Licences to carry arms, or for sporting, are not re- 

 quired. 



Every one has a primd facie right to deal as he pleases 

 with shooting, trapping, or otherwise, or the game on his 

 own land, be his tenure emphyteutical or freehold. 



Any one may shoot wildfowl from a boat at sea, but 

 a person so sporting may not wade along the shore, or shoot 

 inwards on to the land, unless, of course, he is coasting his 

 own estate. 



There is little game in Denmark to tempt poachers ; and 

 the incidents of violence which follow poaching would be 

 uncongenial to the quiet habits of the Danish peasant. 



In order to favour the growth and settlement of dunes, 

 where these are required for the protection of the coast, 

 a so-called "peace," or jubilee, of several months is accorded 

 by official order to certain sand-burrowing animals, such as 

 foxes, martens, and the like, in the dunes named. 



Deer and hares may not be killed between the 1st of 

 March and 12th of September. For partridges, the fence 

 period is 1st of February to 12th of September ; for black- 

 game and snipes, 1st of February to 1st of August. 



Fines of five to ten dollars are inflicted on persons con- 

 victed of taking the nests or young of creatures classed as 

 game. 



Unauthorized persons of any kind taking singing birds, 

 or injuring their nests, may be fined from two to five 

 dollars. 



No one may walk in another person's preserves with 

 guns and dogs, unless lawful business call him, and his dogs 

 are tied and his guns uncharged. Offenders against this rule 



