60 THE COMPLETE WILDFOWLER 
This question of protection is now so confusing that it may 
with safety be said that the sportsman is hardly likely to 
encounter anything more involved. Moreover, itis evident, Iam 
sorry to say, that personal interest has been introduced in the 
framing of the bye-laws for the supposed better protection of 
birds, in some cases the main idea being to deprive sportsmen 
of many of the privileges hitherto enjoyed, or to curtail them. 
It is a thousand pities that such a state of affairs should exist, 
and, without doubt, I state that, unless steps are speedily 
taken to annul the progress of anti-cruelty faddists, we shall 
soon be in a state of deadlock. So confusing are the details 
of even well-meaning wild bird orders that it will ere long be 
found necessary to state something more general and dispense 
with local ideas altogether. 
tected wild birds which is official. 
the varying local names of the species :-— 
American quail. Grebe. Oyster-catcher. Shoveller. 
Auk. Greenshank. Peewit. Skua. 
Avocet. Guillemot. Petrel. Smew. 
Bee-eater. Gull (except Phalarope. Snipe. 
Bittern. Black-backed _ Plover. Solan goose. 
Bonxie. gull). Ploverspage. Spoonbill. 
Colin. Hoopoe. Pochard. Stint. 
Cornish chough. Kingfisher. Puffin. Stone-curlew. 
Coulterneb. Kittiwake. Purre. Stonehatch. 
Cuckoo. Lapwing. Razorbill. Summer snipe. 
Curlew. Lark. Redshank. Tarrock, 
Diver. Loon. Reeve or Ruff. Teal. 
Dotterel. Mallard. Roller. Tern. 
Dunbird. Marrot. Sanderling. Thick-knee. 
Dunlin. Merganser. Sandpiper. Tystey. 
Eider duck. Murre. Scout. Whaup. 
Fern-owl. Night-hawk. Sealark. Whimbrel. 
Fulmar. Nightjar. Seamew. Widgeon. 
Gannet. Nightingale. Sea parrot. Wild duck. 
Goatsucker. Oriole. Sea swallow. Willock. 
Godwit. Owl. Shearwater. Woodcock. 
Goldfinch. Ox-bird. Sheldrake. Woodpecker. 
Below, however, is a list of pro- 
No attempt is made to give 
