THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS PROTECTION ACT, 1918. 



This Act has received the Roval Assent, but will not be brought into operation until a date to be fixed 

 by proclamation of the Governor. As much depends upon the Regulations which the Act empowers 

 the Governor to make, it may be some time before the proclamation is published, and in the meantime 

 the Birds Protection Act, 1901, and the Native Animals Protection Act. 1903, remain in force. With 

 all their shortcomings, these Acts are useful, and active administration will do much to prepare the 

 ground for the new measure. 



The principal features of the new Act are found in the provisions protecting all birds and animals, 

 with the exception of a few scheduled species, and establishing " districts " or sanctuaries in which no 

 birds or animals of any species may be killed or taken, except under license. The first district is defined, 

 and includes practically the whole county of Cumberland. Other lands of the State may be declared 

 by proclamation to be districts, and the maximum penalty for violation of any such sanctuary is a 

 salutary one. viz., (20. 



Provision is also made for the issue of licenses to take or kill game birds or animals for sale, and 

 limiting the number of any specified kind which may be taken in any given time. 



The only serious omissions are the absence of any provision for a gun tax and the appointment 

 of paid rangers. With regard to the latter, the police are constituted rangers, ex officio, and honorary 

 rangers may also be appointed. It is doubtful whether the latter provision will be sufficient to strengthen 

 the already overworked police force in carrying out the effective administration of the Act. 



The following are the schedules of unprotected birds and animals, but the Governor may by 

 proclamation add other species to or remove any species from the schedules, either absolutely or for 

 any specified district : — 



FIRST SCHEIU'I E. 

 Common Name. Scientific Name. 



Sparrow Passer domestii us 



Silver Eye Zosterops coertdescens. 



Black Cormorant or Shag Phalacrocorax carbo. 



White-breasted Cormorant. . . . Phalacrocorax gouldi. 



Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax hypoleucus. 



Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris. 



Little Cormorant PkalacrocoroA melanoleucus. 



Crow Corvus coronoides. 



Raven Corone australis. 



Friar-bird or Leatherhead Tropidorhvnchus comiculatus 



Yellow-throated Friar-bird. ... Philemon citreigularis. 

 Garrulous Honey Eater or 



Miner or Soldier Bird Myzmtha garrula. 



Sulphur- crested or White 



Cockatoo Cacatu>i gdlerita. 



Rose-crested Cockatoo or Galah Cacatua roseicapilla 



Lory Platycncus elegant. 



Rose Hill or Rosella Parrot Platycercus cximttts. 



Blue-bellied Lorikeet or Blue 



Mountain Parrot Trichoglossus nova-holiandia 



Red-rumped Grass Parakeet .. Psephotus htematonolus. 

 Wedge- tailed Eagle or Eagle 



Hawk Urotetus audax. 



Every species of Snipe, 

 Gill-bird. 

 Starling. 

 White-throated Falcon. 



SECOND SCHEDULE. 

 Common Name. Scientific Name. 



Rabbit Lepus cuniculus. 



Hare Lepus europGUS. 



Dingo Cants dingo. 



Fox f'ulpcs alopex. 



Fruit Bat nr Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus. 



Tiger Cat Dasyurus maculatus. 



Native Cat Dasyut us vivcrrinus. 



Common Kangaroo Rat Potorus tridaclylus. 



Brush-tailed Kangaroo Rat Beltongia penicillata. 



Gaimard's Kangaroo Rat Bettongia gaimardi 



Rufo.is Kangaroo Rat Aeprymnus rufescens. 



Hare Wallaby Lagorchestes U'Poroides 



Nail-tailed Wallaby Onychogale frcnata. 



White-throated Wallaby Macropus Parma. 



Paddymelon Macropus tketidis. 



Red-legged Wallaby Macropus wilcoxi. 



Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis. 



Wombat Phascolomys mitcluili. 



Long-nosed Bandicoot Perauuhs nasuta. 



Common Bandicoot Peramcles obesula. 



Rabbit Bandicoot Tkylacomys lagotis. 



The last four species named in the first schedule were added as amendments to the Bill in its form 

 as introduced, hence the absence of scientific names, and the added disadvantage of uncertainty as to 

 what is really meant by " Every species of Snipe " and the " White-throated Falcon " — a vernacular 

 name not found in any authoritative work on the birds of Australia. 



