320 BIRD LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



SICILY. 



I am informed that any person provided with a licence 

 is at liberty to shoot game of any description, and at all 

 seasons wherever he finds it, except within walled enclosures, 

 which are devoted to the preservation of game for the use 

 of the proprietor of the land. In every case of trespass, 

 whether committed in pursuit of game or otherwise, the 

 proprietor's remedy is to lodge a complaint against the 

 offender with the local judicial authorities, by whom 

 the trespasser, if convicted, may be sentenced to make good 

 any actual damage, and to pay a small fine, besides costs. 



VENETIAN PROVINCES. 



No one can be authorized to use poison, to hunt or shoot, 

 etc., hares when the ground is covered with snow, to hunt 

 stags, fallow deer, or roebucks, to hunt with hounds in the 

 fields before the end of September, or to go in pursuit of 

 game, etc., on another person's land which is enclosed, or, 

 if unenclosed, on which there are any kinds of produce liable 

 to damage. The penalty for the commission of any of these 

 offences is a fine of one hundred and eighty francs. 



Land is considered as enclosed only when it is completely 

 surrounded by fences or ditches in such a manner as to show 

 manifestly the intention of the owner constantly to prevent 

 the ingress of persons as well as beasts. 



A licence is only valid from the 1st of July to the 15th 

 of the following April. Shooting, fowling, etc., at any other 

 time are punishable with fines of one hundred and eighty 

 francs. 



ROMAN PROVINCE. 

 A law of August 14th, 1839,. declares that all persons may 



