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taking eggs ‘out of Pertricks, or wylde Dukes 
nestes’; and the same penalty extended to taking 
partridges, plovers, black-cock, grey-hens, muir- 
cocks, ‘nor sic fowles,’ from the beginning of 
lent till August. Hares and Rabbits, or ‘cun- 
nings’ as they were then called, were not to be 
slain in time of snow under penalty of six shillings 
and eightpence. 
Rough but effective protection was also given 
to the larger wild birds in those days. ‘Na 
man sall sell or buy any read of fallow Deare, 
Daes, Raes, Pertricks, Mure-fowles, Black-cocks, 
Aith-hennes, Termiganes, wild Dukes, Teiles, 
Ateils, Gordons, Mortons, Schildernes, Skail- 
draikes, Herons, Buteris, any sic kinde of fowles, 
commonly used to be chased with Hawks, under 
the paine of ane hunder pounds to be incurred, 
alswell be the buyer as the seller: and in case 
any of them be inabill to pay the said summe, 
they sall be scurged be the apprehender, throw 
the burgh or towne, quhere they are apprehended.’ 
One poor, unfortunate bird, however, was out- 
lawed and doomed to remorseless destruction. 
‘Ruikes bigand in Kirkyards, Orchards, or tries, 
sall be destroied, and their birds not suffered 
