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HISTORICAL PART 
The sale of birds except during these periods shall be 
prohibited. 
§ 5. Under certain conditions, by special request, if such 
request be justified, the respective government may allow 
exemption from the regulations of §§1, 3 and 4, in the 
interest of the furtherance of scientific research. 
§ 6. As, according to § 1, the only object of this declar- 
ation is to protect birds useful to agriculture, it goes without 
saying that §§ 2—4 do not apply to domestic or field farm- 
ing nor to the farmyard. 
Though the regulations of §§ 2 and 5 do not apply to 
birds that, from an agricultural point of view, are not decid- 
edly useful or noxious, if the latter are of some value at 
least as game, the respective governments are inclined to take 
measures to protect such species as game. 
§ 7. The governments of the contracting parties shall 
inform one another of protective measures taken in their 
respective States and shall give all information that may be 
necessary or desirable. 
§ 8. The governments of the contracting parties shall use 
every effort to secure the collaboration of other States. 
§ 9. The present declaration shall be drawn up in two 
copies of identical text and signed by the Foreign Ministers 
of the respective parties, one copy to be kept, after mutual 
signature, by each of the signatories. 
(Signed) (Signed) 
Count Andrassy. Visconti Venosta. 
Budapest, Nov. 5. 1875. Rome, Nov. 29. 1875. 
Had this important agreement come into force, the extreme 
significance of Italy in the question of international bird- 
protection would have enabled the greatest impediment to be 
surmounted: and those who were responsible for it, were 
