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College. The Frog has in the hind limbs the ankle bones elongated to 

 form an additional segment. These elongated bones are two and are 

 called astragalus and calcaneiim. They are normally apart from each 

 other so as to form a spindle-shaped aperture between them. In the 

 specimen reproduced they were so in the right leg, but in the left the two 

 were united together along their whole length, looking very much like the 

 normal cannon bone of cows. 



H. M. CHIBBER. 

 Agricultural College, Poona, October 1912. 



No. XXXI.— THE NEW WILD BIRDS AND ANIMALS ACT. 



We give below the text of the New " Act to make better provision for the 

 protection and preservation of certain Wild Birds and Animals" in case some 

 of our Members may neither have seen it nor know of it. The Act received 

 the assent of the Governor General on the 18th September 1912. — (Eds.) 



An Act to make better provision for the protection and preservation 

 of certain wild birds and animals. 



Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for the protection 

 and preservation of certain wild birds and animals, it is hereby enacted 

 as follows : — 



1. (i) This Act may be called the Wild Birds and Animals Protection short title and 

 Act, 1912 ; and extent. 



(2) It extends to the whole of British India, including British Baluchis- 

 tan, the Sonthal Parganas and the Pargana of Spiti. 



2. (i) This Act applies, in the first instance, to the birds and animals Application of 

 specified in the Schedule, when in their wild state. A^ct. 



{2) The Local Government may, by notification in the local official 

 Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to any kind of wild bird or animal 

 other than those specified in the Schedule, which, in its opinion, it is 

 desirable to protect or preserve. 



3. The Local Government may, by a notification in the local official close time. 

 Gazette, declare the whole year or any part thereof to be a close time 

 throughout the whole or any part of its territories for any kind of wild bird 



or animal to which this Act applies, or for female or immature wild birds 

 or animals of such kind ; and, subject to the provisions hereinafter con- 

 tained, during such close time, and within the areas specified in such 

 notification, it shall be unlawful— 



(a) to capture any such bird or animal, or to kill any such bird or ani- 

 mal which has not been captured before the commiencement of 

 such close time ; 

 {b) to sell or buy, or offer to sell or buy, or to possess, any such bird 

 or animal which has not been captured or killed before the com- 

 mencement of such close time, or the flesh thereof ; 

 (c) if any plumage has been taken from any such bird captured or 

 killed during such close time, to sell or buy, or to ofl"er to sell or 

 buy, or to possess, such plumage. 



4. (7) Whoever does, or attempts to do, any act in contravention penalties.- 

 of section 3, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty 

 rupees, 



{2) Whoever, having already been convicted of an offence under this 

 section, is again convicted thereunder shall, on every subsequent conviction, 

 be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one 

 month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with 

 both. 



