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NOTICES ISSUED BY THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



The following notices have been issued by the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, in the form of posters, and copies will 

 be gladly sent to anyone applying to Mr. Fortune for them. 

 ' The Wild Birds and Eggs Protection Committee of the York- 

 shire NaturaHsts' Union wish to draw the attention of the 

 public to the fact that all wild birds nesting upon the pro- 

 montory of Spurn, and their eggs, are strictly protected by 

 law, and that any person or persons interfering with them 

 will be prosecuted. A suitable reward will be given to any- 

 one giving information which will lead to the conviction of 

 offenders. Information may be sent to any of the following : — 

 W. H. St. Quintin, Esq., J. P., Chairman of Committee, 

 Scampston Hall, Rilhngton, York ; R. Fortune, F.Z.S., Haywra 

 Street, Harrogate; T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., Seafield, Redcar, 

 Hon. Sees, to the Committee, or to S. Robinson, Gamekeeper , 

 Kilnsea, the Committee's Watcher over Spurn.' 



WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACTS. 



' The Wild Birds ; and Eggs Protection Committee of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union wish to draw the attention of the 

 public to the fact that all Birds (with the exception of the 

 House Sparrow), are protected during the nesting season, and 

 assistance is particularly desired in protecting the following 

 species and their eggs, as on account of ceaseless persecution 

 some are threatened with speedy extinction as breeding species 

 in the county : — Buzzard, Dotterel, Dunlin or Stint, Goldfinch, 

 Grebes, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Linnet, Nightingale, Owls, Pere- 

 grine Falcon, Raven, Stone Curlew, Turtle Doves, Wood 

 Peckers. ISlote — These birds (and others) are protected iill 

 the year round. 



The Committee will suitably reward any person giving 

 information that will lead to the conviction of anyone infringing 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts. And also as to the setting of 

 Pole Traps, which has been declared illegal by Act of Parhament. 

 These traps are responsible for a great amount of cruelty and 

 suffering, in addition to the destruction of numbers of harmless 

 and inoffensive birds. Information may be sent to any of the 

 undermentioned :—W. H. St. Quintin, Esq., J. P., Scampston 

 Hall, Rilhngton, York, Chairman of the Committee ; R. 

 Fortune, F.Z.S., Haywra Street, Harrogate, and T. H. Nelson, 

 M.B.O.U., Seafield, Redcar, Hon. Secretaries.' : .;. , : 



1908 May I. 



