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HISTORICAL PART 
*Grebes (Podiceps); Grebes. 
*Divers (Colymbus); Plon^eons. 
Razorbill (Alca); Pingouins. 
Puffin (Fratercula) ; Macareux. 
Merganser (Mergulus); Mergules. 
Tystie = Black Guillemot (Uria); Guillemot. 
It is evident that the draft including these three lists was 
meant to cover the North Polar regions and the North of 
Africa, an enormous stretch of land ; besides, it combined 
protection, shooting (Game Legislation) and extermination, a 
vast combination. 
The effect of earlier deliberations was seen in the draft 
contained the lists then so urgently insisted on. 
From a Hungarian point of view, the list of birds to be 
protected might easily have been reconciled with the existing 
Hungarian one (§§ 57—58 of Act XII of 1894); but this was 
impossible in Austria where incalculable difficulties might 
have arisen in the various provinces. In Germany too the 
schedules could not have reckoned on ready acceptance on 
the part of the federal States. 
The delegate of Italy acting on the instructions of his 
government, decidedly declared that Italy could not accept 
any proposal including a binding schedule and added that 
no agreement refused by Italy could be of any advantage to 
Hungary or Austria. 
The inclusion of game legislation still further complicated 
the state of affairs as it affected many existing laws. 
The French president, however, used every effort to have 
the draft discussed and accepted without delay, a course 
only impeded by the motion of the Hungarian delegate, 
which was accepted, to allow time for the study of the 
same. 
The delegates of Hungary, Austria, Germany and Italy, 
