THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CONGRESS AT VIENNA, 1873. 53 
At the same time it is in general forbidden to sell nests, 
eggs and nestlings procured in defiance of the prohibition. 
§ 3. Further the prohibition of the following acts is 
declared : 
a) The catching or killing of birds at night with bird- 
lime, nets, guns or other weapons. Night is the period between 
one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. 
b) The catching or killing of birds so long as the ground 
is snow-covered. 
c) The catching of birds on river banks, at springs or on 
the banks of lakes, in times of drought. 
d) The catching of birds by the strewing of seeds mixed 
with narcotics or poisons or with other baits. 
e) The catching of birds with nooses, nets or any other 
implements used on the surface of the ground, such as traps, 
snares, the Dalmatian „plocke" or the „lanciaxera ' used 
for snaring larks. 
f) The catching of birds with the „parexella" or indeed 
with any other style of moving, movable nets or such as 
may be spread on the surface of the ground, in fields, on 
bushes and shrubs or on roads. 
The governments of the parties hereby contracting reserve 
to themselves the right of prohibiting the catching of birds 
in any other manner, if the reports of experts deputed by 
Austria, Hungary or the Senate of the Italian provinces prove 
that the methods in question are particularly destructive and 
harmful to the birds of the respective territories. 
§ 4 Recapitulation. Apart from the restrictions of §§ 2 
and 3, the catching or killing of birds shall be permitted 
only in the following manner: 
a) From Sept. 1 till the end of February, with guns. 
b) From Sept. 15 till the end of February, in any other way 
not prohibited. 
