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Queenborough through Eastchurch to Warden Point. (2) So 

 much of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness railway as lies between 

 Kingsferry and the Sittingbourne railway station, and bounded 

 on the south by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, from 

 Sittingbourne railway station to Whitstable railway station, and 

 bounded on the east by the main road from Whitstable station to 

 the sea, and bounded on the north by the Swale and Whitstable 

 Bay. (3) The west by the Minster and Deal Branch of the South- 

 Eastern Railway from Minster railway station to Deal railway 

 station, and bounded on the south by the road from Deal railway 

 station to Deal pier, on the east by the sea, and on the north by 

 the South-Eastern Railway from Minster station to Ramsgate 

 station. (4) East and south of the main road from Walmer 

 through Dover to Folkestone from the point where such road 

 passes through the southern boundary of the Walmer urban 

 district to the point where such road enters the borough of 

 Folkestone, such area being bounded on the east and south by 

 the sea, on the north by the Walmer urban district, and on the 

 south by the borough of Folkestone. (5) South and west of the 

 main road which runs from Appledore railway station through 

 Snargate, Brenzett, and Old Romney to New Romney station, 

 and thence to Littlestone-on-Sea; such area being bounded on 

 the north-west by the Royal Military Canal from Appledore rail- 

 way station to the Sussex boundary, on the south-west by the 

 Sussex boundary, and on the south and east by the sea. II. The 

 taking of eggs of the following birds is prohibited within so much 

 of the county of Kent as is not within the Metropolitan Police 

 District: Bearded tit, buzzard, goldfinch, golden oriole, great 

 plover or thickknee, hawfinch, hobby, honey buzzard, Kentish 

 plover, kestrel, kingfisher, martin, merlin, nightingale, osprey, owl 

 (all species), peregrine falcon, swallow, swift, turtle-dove, wryneck. 

 III. The Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, will now apply within 

 so much of the county of Kent as is not within the Metropolitan 

 Police District to the following species as if they were included in 

 the schedule to that Act, viz, : Bearded tit, buzzard, chaffinch, 

 hawfinch, hobby, honey buzzard, Kentish plover, kestrel, martin, 

 merlin, moorhen, osprey, peregrine falcon, swallow, swift, turtle- 

 dove, wryneck. IV. The close time limited by the Act of 1880 

 (except as regards the common wild duck) is varied throughout 

 the county so as to be from March 1 to Aug. 12 in each year. A 

 separate order has been made by the Secretary of State under the 

 said Acts applying to so much of the county of Kent as is within 

 the Metropolitan Police District. 



Kirkcudbright and Wigtown. — By an order made in May, 

 1895, the taking or destroying eggs of the birds named in the 

 order for Dumfriesshire [which see] is prohibited for a period of 

 one vear, from June 1, 1895. 



