THE QUESTION OF THE INTERN. PROT. OF BIRDS COMES TO HUNGARY 85 
Rome on Nov. 29 of the same year. As to the text of a 
protocol to contain the acceptance of the „ Declaration", it 
may be stated that the form recommended by the Austro- 
Hungarian Foreign Ministry in 1876 is well adapted to secur- 
ing the endorsement of the various Powers. 
„The Congress further declares that it desires the prohi- 
bition of the wholesale taking of useful and „game" birds, 
and the introduction of stricter regulations re the sale and 
jjtransito" traffic in the same. 
„The Congress further desires that these principles should 
be carried into effect, on their several territories, by the States 
endorsing the said „ Declaration".** 
The last two paragraphs of the resolution were annexed 
as a result of the discussion that followed: this was necessary 
in order that the resolutions presented during the debate 
(particularly that of Dr. Russ) might be withdrawn. 
Dr. Russ's proposal was: 
1. It is an international interest that a prohibition should 
be in force in respect to all birds during the breeding season 
(the regulation of the latter to be reserved for the Parliaments 
of the respective countries). 
2. Every kind of wholesale taking of small (useful) birds 
to be forbidden. 
3. The sale of little (useful) birds that have been killed 
to be forbidden. 
Several considered the „ Declaration" to be too mild and 
demanded a more peremptory tone, a course which would 
not have been decorous in a body that was merely asked to 
give an opinion. 
The President put Maday's proposal to the vote as 
against that of Russ; that of Liebe— Wangelin had been 
withdrawn in favour of Maday's. The majority voted for 
Maday's resolution as supplemented, which was unanimously 
