THE ZooLoGistT—FEBRUARY, 1872. 2927 
tué, blessé on pris ou qui auront été trouvés en possession de 
plumage frais appartenant d’un oiseau de mer, seront censes 
avoir tué, blessé ou pris tel oiseau de mer, sauf 4 eux de prouver 
le contraire. Pareillement ceux qui depuis ce jour au 15 Octobre 
prochain auront été trouvés en possession d’un ceuf de l'année d’un 
oiseau de mer seront censés avoir pris et enlevé le dit ceuf sauf a 
eux de prouver le contraire.” The penalty in each case is the same 
as in Sec. 1. Sec. 4 contains the list of the Oiseaux de Mer :— 
Les Mauves, Mouettes, Pingouins, Guillemots, Cormorants, 
Barbelottes ou Hirondelles-de-mer, Piesmarans, Petrels, Plon- 
geons, Grebes, Puffins, Dotterelles, Alouettes-de-mer,* Tourne- 
pierres, Gannets, Courlis et Martin-pécheurs. To explain the 
words “depuis ce jour,” I should say that the Act has hitherto 
only been passed temporarily at the Chief Pleas after Easter in 
each year, and supposed to expire on the 15th of October. The 
last bird mentioned would be by no means a bad addition to our 
own Act, and I think I may safely say that many of us would be 
glad to see both the kingfisher and the water ouzel also in our list 
of favoured birds, though how far they would come within the 
reasons given for protection in the recital of this or our own may 
be difficult to see; however, the same may be said of many of the 
favoured birds in both Acts. Some of the birds mentioned in the 
Guernsey list can enjoy but little of the protection so kindly offered 
them by the States; the divers, for instance, do not breed in the 
islands, and, in fact, do not arrive in the autumn until about the 
expiration of the close-time, and depart again soon after the Easter 
Chief Pleas. Neither have the gannets a breeding station in the 
islands, and do not appear to arrive, in fact, till the beginning of 
November ; for though I saw a good many of these birds between 
Alderney and Guernsey on the passage home, I saw none going 
out, though it was quite daylight before we reached Alderney, and 
I kept a bright look-out to see what birds were about. In my 
former visit, in the summer, I only saw one, an immature non- 
breeding bird. I do not know, either, what Mr. Frank Buckland 
would say to the addition of cormorants to the list of protected 
birds, as, from some recent communicatious to ‘Land and Water,’ 
he does not appear to think the gulls ever as useful as the recital 
in both our own and the Guernsey Act would make them out to 
* Ring dotterel, purres, sanderling, and all the small shore-waders, are known by 
the name of “Alouettes-de-mer.” 
