The Protection of Birds in Hungary. 
The incorporation, in 1906, of the International Convention 
for the Protection of Birds in the „ Corpus Juris" of Hungary, 
i. e. its being endowed with the force of law, found the 
rational protection of birds in Hungary a fait accompli. 
As we know from what has been already stated, the pro- 
tection of birds useful to agriculture is effectively enough 
provided by §§ 57—58 of Act XII of 1894 (dealing with 
agriculture and field police), the carrying into effect of which 
is entrusted to the Royal Hungarian Ministers for Agriculture 
and Home Affairs. 
But as is everywhere the case, it has been proved in 
Hungary too that the protection of birds is one of those tasks 
for the fulfilling of which the best-drafted Acts, though carried 
into effect by the authorities with the utmost severity, if 
done only by the State and municipal officials, is insufficient; 
it can only be carried into effect completely and happily by 
the interest and with the cooperation of the public at large. 
When constitutionalism was revived, the protection of 
animals was revived too : but at first no particular attention 
was paid to birds. The first efforts were rather directed not 
so much towards the prevention as towards the mitig- 
ation of the cruelty to animals so prevalent everywhere. 
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