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BIRD LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



To these duties must be added the war tenth and stamps, 

 amounting to one franc twenty centimes. 



SAXONY. 



According to the laws of Saxony, the right of killing 

 game extends to all those animals and birds (living in their 

 natural condition of freedom, and therefore constituting 

 public property) which have hitherto been considered as 

 game in this country, viz. red deer, fallow deer, roedeer, 

 wild boar, wild rabbits, hares, beavers, badgers, otters, foxes, 

 martens, fitchets, weasels, ermines, wild cats, squirrels, and 

 all wild birds. 



He who has the right of killing game is also entitled to 

 destroy the nests of wild birds in his district, to take out 

 their eggs and young ones, and to take possession of dying 

 game and of shed stag horns. 



The owners of the grounds on which the "Altberech- 

 tigten " have the right of killing game are entitled to redeem 



