PROTECTION OF BIRDS AND THEIR EGGS. 180 



Lincolnshire. — By an order dated May 10, 1895, the taking 

 or destroying of the eggs of the sheldrake, sea-pie or oyster- 

 catcher, ringed dotterel, arctic, common and lesser terns, redshank, 

 and common sandpiper, is prohibited within the following area 

 within the administrative county of the ports of Lindsay, Lincoln- 

 shire, viz. : The sea coast, sandhills, dunes, waste lands, fitties, 

 foreshore, and warrens, situate between the sea and the land side 

 of the sea-wall, embankment, ditch, quick fence, or other artificial 

 boundary separating the same from the cultivated land. This 

 order came into force June 10, 1895. The close time has been 

 varied so as to extend from March 15 to Aug. 31. By an order 

 dated Jan. 3, 1896, the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, will 

 apply within the administrative county of the parts of Kesteven, 

 Lincolnshire, to the kestrel, merlin, hobby, buzzard, honey 

 buzzard, swallow, house martin, sand martin, swift, and wryneck, 

 as if those species were included in the schedule to that Act. 

 II. The taking of eggs of the following birds is prohibited within 

 the administrative county of the parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, 

 viz. : Goldfinch, kingfisher, nightjar, nightingale, owls (of all 

 species), ruff or reeve, woodpecker, kestrel, merlin, hobby, buz- 

 zard, honey buzzard, swallow, house martin, sand martin, swift, 

 wryneck, teal, and wild ducks of all species. 



Middlesex.— By an order dated Jan. 29, 1896 : I. The Wild 

 Birds Protection Act, 1880, within the county of Middlesex, 

 applies to the wryneck, swallow, martin, swift, bearded tit, shrike, 

 kestrel, merlin, hobby, buzzard, honey buzzard, osprey, and mag- 

 pie, as if those species were included in the schedule to that Act. 

 II. The taking of eggs of the following birds is prohibited within 

 the county of Middlesex, viz. : Nightingale, goldfinch, lark, night- 

 jar, woodpeckers, kingfisher, cuckoo, owls, kestrel, buzzard, honey 

 buzzard, merlin, hobby, osprey, wryneck, swallow, martins, swift, 

 bearded tit, shrike, magpie, wheatear, stonechat, whinchat, red- 

 start, flycatchers, sedge warbler, reed warbler, blackcap, garden 

 warbler, wood warbler, willow warbler, chiffchaff, wbitethroat, 

 lesser whitethroat, long-tailed tit, nuthatch, wren, golden-crested 

 wren, wagtails, hawfinch, linnet, buntings, starling, landrail or 

 corncrake, and coot. The close-time has been varied within the 

 county council area, so as to extend from Feb. 1 to Aug. 31. 



Norfolk. — By an order dated April 8, 1895: I. The taking 

 of eggs of any wild bird is prohibited for a period of one year, 

 from May 1, 1895, within specified areas (which include Hickling 

 and neighbouring broads with surrounding country to the sea- 

 shore, and the series of broads known as Ormesby, Rollesby, 

 Hemsby, Filby, and Burgh Broads). II. The taking of eggs of 

 any wild bird is prohibited for a period of one year from May 1, 

 1895, within a further specified area — namely, the whole of the 

 foreshore . . . from the estuary sluice at North Wootton to the 



