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Bustard, Woodcock, Snipe, Quail, and Landrail, and 

 the eggs of any Game Bird or Swan, Wild Duck, 

 Teal, and Widgeon. Such of these birds, therefore, 

 as have not already become exterminated, I think 

 we may dismiss from our consideration as, at all 

 «vents, fairly well cared for. 



We now come to the year 1869, when an Act for 



the preservation of Sea Birds (32 and 33 Vict. c. 17) 



was passed, and this was followed in 1872 and 1876 



by further Acts for the protection of Wild Fowl and 



Wild Birds, but all these Acts were repealed by 



the existing Act of 1880 (43 and 44 Vict., c. 35). 



This Act is a most important one, and after defining 



in section 2 that the words " Wild Birds " shall be 



•deemed to mean all Wild Birds, section 3 enacts that 



Any person who, between the 1st day of March 



and the 1st day of August, in any year, shall 



knowingly and wilfully shoot, or attempt to 



shoot, or shall use any boat for the purpose 



of shooting, or causing to be shot, any Wild 



Bird, or shall use any lime, trap, snare, net, or 



other instrument for the purpose of taking any 



wild bird or shall expose or offer for sale or 



shall have in his control or possession after 



the 15th March any wild bird recently killed 



or taken shall on conviction, in the case of any 



