THE QUESTION OF THE INTERN. PROT. OF BIRDS COMES TO HUNGARY 8| 
contrast to the other countries, jackdaws, rooks ancj starlings 
are included among those protected all the year rpund. 
As we have seen, in the case of the German Empire the 
several States take measures of their own, often quite diverse 
ones. 
Switzerland. Here § 4 of the Game Laws provides for 
the protection of birds. The law protects all insect-eaters, 
finches as well; larks, starlings and thrushes (except the 
fieldfare), finches and gold-finches; creepers, crows, buzzards, 
kestrels, owls (except the eagle owl), storks and swans. 
Sparrows, starlings and thrushes which frequent vineyards 
may be shot by the owners till after the vintage. Every kind 
of bird-catching is absolutely forbidden. § 18 of the Law 
provides that the protection of birds shall be fostered and 
taught in the elementary schools. 
Belgium, The most essential enactments of the „Reglement 
d'administration generale" (March 1, 1882) are as follows: 
sub A) we find a list of all species that, with their eggs 
and nests, are to be protected all the year round ; B) contains 
a schedule of all species to be protected during the period 
when partridge shooting ceases (i. e. they may be shot during 
the partridge season); C) contains a list of all species that 
may be shot all the year round; among them we find the 
jay, the magpie and the wild pigeon. Finches may be trans- 
ported all the year round, if the owner can prove by official 
evidence that they are his and that he is not dealing in them. 
The employment of little owls, bird-lime and traps is for- 
bidden. 
Holland protects all birds useful to agriculture and for- 
estry, their eggs and nests, according to the following group- 
ings: a) those useful at all times; b) those useful in the 
first 9 months of the year; c) includes insect-eaters, thrushes, 
larks etc.; d) includes finches and ortolans. The law does 
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