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HISTORICAL PART 
§ 10. The Parliaments of the respective countries may 
make exceptions a) in the case of thrushes, b) in the cases 
of noxious birds generally, c) in respect to birds noxious to 
agriculture. 
The remaining clauses deal with the manner of carrying 
out the enactments 
On arriving at Paris, the Hungarian, Austrian, German 
and Italian delegates were told that the French Government 
intended to present a ready draft to the Conference; upon 
which they mutually agreed to wait until this draft was pre- 
sented and to take no further steps until they knew its 
contents. 
The International Conference for the discussion of bird- 
protection met at Paris on June 25, 1895. The members of 
the same were as below: it must be remarked here that the 
Heads of the various States appointed expert advisers („Bei- 
rate"), for the most part famous ornithologists, to assist the 
delegates in their work. Ritter Victor Tschusi von Schmidt- 
hoffen was wired for to attend the conference as the expert 
adviser of Austria-Hungary. The following States, arranged 
in alphabetical order according to their French names, were 
represented as follows: 
Germany (Allemagne): 
Dr. Thiel, Geheimer Haupt-Regierungsrat in the 
German Ministry of Agriculture. 
Count d'Arco, Botschafts-Rat, Second Secretary of 
the German Embassy at Paris. 
Prof. KoENiG, Prof, of Zoology at the Univ. of 
Bonn. 
[Bavaria (Bavarie)]: 
Prof. Selenka, Prof, of Zoology at the Univ. of 
Erlangen. 
