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consent, where the land is enclosed with walls, hedges, fences, 

 or palings, and entirely surrounded by cultivated land, and 

 if any permanent instrument or engines for fowling are 

 employed. 



The killing or taking of pigeons at any time and at any 

 place is forbidden, under pain of a fine of thirty lire (1) 

 for every pigeon killed or taken. The aggregate amount 

 of such fines, however, cannot exceed three hundred lire 

 (10). The birds are forfeited, as well as the arms or other 

 instruments with which they are killed or taken. 



It is forbidden to injure birds' nests and to take their 

 eggs or nestlings, and likewise to injure the holes or lairs 

 of wild four-footed animals, or to kill or take their young, 

 any one of these offences being punishable with a fine of 

 twenty lire (13s. 4cZ.) ; the aggregate amount of fine, 

 however, not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty 

 lire (6). 



From the above prohibition are at all times excepted 

 young unfledged swallows, and the nests, eggs, nestlings of 

 eagles, falcons, owls, ravens, jackdaws, magpies, sparrows, 

 as well as the holes or dens and the young of wolves, foxes, 

 polecats, martens, porcupines, hedgehogs, badgers, and 

 weasels. 



Any person who employs for the purpose of catching 

 birds or other animals substances causing intoxication or 

 stupefaction, and whosoever sets snares made of more than 

 two horse hairs or of wire, and with which animals stronger 

 than thrushes or blackbirds can be caught, shall pay a fine 

 of from twenty to one hundred lire (13s. 4<d. to 3 6s. 8d.). 



All manner of hunting or fowling is prohibited when the 

 ground is covered with snow, under pain of fine from twenty 

 to one hundred lire, together with forfeiture of arms or 

 instruments employed. 



The pursuit of game, etc., with a gun, from one hour after 

 sunset until one hour before sunrise, is prohibited under pain 

 of fine from thirty to one hundred lire (1 to 3 6s. Sd.). 



