238 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
to Leicester, at Belgrave by Mr. Grewcock during a snow-storm 
on January 23rd, 1886. 
Order AnectoripEs.—F amily Gruipm. 
Grus communis, Bechstein. Crane.—In 1822, according to 
Harley, a Crane was shot by Mr. Chaplin, of Groby, on the banks 
of Groby Pool. This is the only instance in which it is known 
to have occurred in this county. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Sale of Game out of Season.—Many persons seem to be under 
the impression that no penalty is incurred by selling game out of season, 
provided it can be proved to have been obtained from abroad. This is 
altogether a mistake; such a proviso extends only to wildfowl, and no such 
clause is to be found in the principal Game Act of 1 and 2 Will. IV. c. 32. 
Section 4 of that Act is explicit enough. It enacts that ‘anyone who shall 
expose or offer for sale any game bird after the lapse of ten days from the 
expiration of the shooting season (that is after the 11th February) shall be 
liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding £1 for every bird so exposed 
or offered for sale,” no exception being made in favour of foreign game. 
“ Any game bird,” of course, means any bird which is included in the 
definition of game laid down in the Act referred to, irrespective of locality, 
and all our native game birds being protected by that statute it was of 
course unnecessary to include them (and they accordingly are not included) 
in the provisions either of the Wild Fowl Preservation Act or the Wild 
Birds Protection Act. The sooner this is understood by London and 
provincial game-dealers the better for the interests of game-preservers and 
sportsmen generally throughout the kingdom. 
Death of Thomas Edward, the Banffshire Naturalist—Our readers 
will be sorry to hear of the death of this worthy naturalist, who has just 
passed away at the advanced age of seventy-two. A shoemaker by trade at 
Banff, and a poor man, he had not the means to inform himself as others 
with similar tastes have done. He always lamented his want of books, and 
in the course of his collecting had frequently to send his specimens to 
correspondents at a distance to be named, and in this way often lost them. 
Being resident at Banff, his rambles extended coastwise along the shore of 
the Moray Firth for about seven miles in one direction and six in another. 
These excursions also extended inland for about five or six miles. The use 
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