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tary. [This is extremely doubtful. Ep.] They did not breed 
here, which proves that they are only visitors. (‘ Beilage zur 
Illustrirten Jagdzeitung, December 28th, 1888, p. 157). 
WesreHaia. On the 30th November, 1888, a covey of fifteen 
birds were seen on the preserves of the estate of Niesen.— 
C. BrireriscH (Warburg, Westphalia). 
Saxony.—During two battues on the Alschlebener and 
Kliétzer estates, in the province of Saxony, during last December, 
a single Sand Grouse was shot in each. (‘ Der Weidmann, 
Blatter fiir Jager und Jagd freunde,’ 2nd January, 1889, p. 121.) 
Swepen anv Norway.—Various accounts have been received 
from Sweden and Norway about the Sand Grouse. It is said 
that these visitors have been seen in several places in the 
province of Halland. Since the harvest was gathered, large 
flocks have remained in the neighbourhood of Warbeg. In 
Norway, specimens have been shot on the eastern side of the 
Glommen-Berg in Hedemarken. It has also been stated that a 
flock of from ten to twenty individuals was observed at a great 
heightin the mountains at Taundalen (1150 feet above the sea).— 
B. Danse (Ystad, 16th December, 1888). 

THE SAND GROUSE PROTECTION ACT, 1888. 
Tue following is the text of the Sand-Grouse Protection Act, 
which received the Royal assent on the 25th December last :— 
“ An Act for the better Protection of the Sand Grouse in the 
United Kingdom. 51 & 52 Vict. ch. 55. 
‘“‘ Whereas it is expedient to provide for the protection of the 
Sand Grouse, in order that it may, if possible, become 
acclimatised in the United Kingdom : 
‘Be it therefore 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, as 
follows : 
“1, Any person who shall, after the first day of February 
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and before the 
