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HISTORICAL PART 
1. The destruction in any place, in any manner and at 
any time, of nests or of eggs or of broods — except 
of such birds as are noxious to man or to his domestic 
animals, to the crops, products and dwellings — shall be 
forbidden. 
2. The shooting season shall be restricted within certain 
Hmits, the open season, with respect to customs and public 
opinion, to be determined, either by law or parish admini- 
stration, as lasting from Aug. 15 to February 28, i. e. from 
the beginning of autumn to about the end of winter. Shooting 
at any other time shall be rigorously prohibited. 
3. Any kind of bird-catching with nooses, with spring-rods, 
with traps, with permanent large nets (Roccolo, Roganja?), 
with lime, with or without little owls, to be forbidden. 
4. Licenses and special arrangements to be provided for 
the hunting of wild animals (game) that are a danger to 
man and his domestic animals ; in the case of services to be 
rendered to science, there shall be no difficulty in obtaining 
a license. In these cases there are to be no restrictions of 
time or manner. 
5. Special regulations shall be made for the control of 
the shooting of waterfowl living on banks and marshes, the 
open season to be from the beginning of spring till the end 
of March. 
6. The sale of nests, eggs and any kind of brood, however 
acquired, during the close season, shall be prohibited. 
These six articles were made the subject of exhaustive 
treatment by the Imperial Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, 
which made some modifications. The modified articles were 
communicated to the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Agricul- 
ture; after the latter had approved them, the Austro-Hungarian 
Foreign office returned them to the Italian Government with 
a request for their acceptance. 
