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to wrap each egg in tissue-paper after rolling it in wool, as, if this 
is not done the egg frequently works out of the wool and gets 
broken. 
The whole of the apparatus described fits into a box twelve 
inches long by six inches deep and six wide, and may be seen 
at Messrs. T. Cooke & Son’s, 30, Museum Street, London, who 
will be happy to show it. 
WILD FOWL PRESERVATION. 
[We have received so many enquiries concerning the “ Wild Birds 
Protection Act, 1872,” and the ‘“‘ Wild Fowl Preservation Act, 1876,” 
from correspondents who are anxious to know how the law at present 
stands on the subject that we think it desirable to print the two Acts 
mm extenso. In doing so, we need only observe that had the legislature 
acted upon the recommendations of the promoters of the Bill of 1872, 
that is to say, the Committee of Naturalists appointed by the British 
Association, there would now have been one Act instead of two, much 
confusion would have been avoided, and such a period would have been 
fixed for the close-time as would have met with general approbation. 
Unfortunately the recommendations referred to were not adopted.—Eb. ] 
(35 & 86 Vict., Chapt. 78.] 
An ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF CERTAIN WILD BIRDS DURING 
THE BREEDING SEASON. 
{10th August, 1872.] 
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the protection of certain 
wild birds of the United Kingdom during the breeding season: 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
authority of the same: 
1. That the words “wild bird” shall for all purposes of this 
Act be deemed to include the birds specified in the schedule to 
this Act; the word “ sheriff” shall include steward and also sheriff 
substitute and steward substitute. 
2. Any person who shall knowingly or with intent kill, wound, 
or take any wild bird, or shall expose or offer for sale any wild 
