168 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
bird recently killed, wounded, or taken, between the fifteenth day 
of March and the first day of August in any year shall, on con- 
viction of any such offence before any justice or justices of the 
peace in England or Ireland, or before the sheriff or any justice 
or justices of the peace in Scotland, for a first offence be repri- 
manded and discharged on payment of costs and summons, and 
for every subsequent offence forfeit and pay for every such wild 
bird so killed, wounded, or taken, or so exposed or offered for 
sale, such sum of money as including costs of conviction shall 
not exceed five shillings, as to the said justice, justices, or sheriff 
shall seem meet, unless he shall prove to the satisfaction of the 
said justice, justices, or sheriff that the said wild bird was or were 
bought or received on or before the said fifteenth day of March, 
or of or from some person or persons residing out of the United 
Kingdom: Provided nevertheless, that every summons issued 
under this Act shall specify the kind of wild bird in respect of 
which an offence has been committed, and that not more than one 
summons shall be issued for the same offence. 
3. Where any person shall be found offending against this Act, 
it shall be lawful for any person to require the person so offending 
to give his Christian name, surname, and place of abode, and in 
case the person offending shall, after being so required, refuse to 
give his real name or place of abode, or give an untrue name or 
place of abode, he shall be liable, on being convicted of any such 
offence before a justice of the peace or the sheriff, to forfeit and 
pay, in addition to the penalties imposed by section two, such 
sum of money not exceeding ten shillings as to the convicting 
justice or sheriff shall seem meet. 
4. All offences mentioned in this Act which shall be committed 
within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, shall be deemed to be 
offences of the same nature and liable to the same punishments 
as if they had been committed upon any land in the United 
Kingdom, and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and deter- 
mined in any county or place in the United Kingdom, in which 
the offender shall be apprehended or be in custody, in the same 
manner in all respects as if they had been actually committed 
in that county or place; and in any such information or con- 
viction for any such offence, the offence may be averred to have 
been committed “on the high seas,’ and in Scotland any offence 
committed against this Act on the sca coast, or at sea beyond 
