THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS IN HUNGARY 
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laws, has the binding force of law, for the protection of animals 
useful to agriculture. It runs as follows: 
Royal Hungarian Minister of Agriculture. 
No. 24655. 
VII. 1. 1901. 
CircularDecree, 
addressed to all local authorities. 
On the basis of §§ 57 and 58 of Act XII of 1894 
(dealing with agriculture and field-police), in the interests of 
the protection of animals useful to agriculture, after having 
given due consideration to the views of the local author- 
ities, in conjunction with the Ministers of Home Affairs 
and of Commerce I decree: 
§ 1. 
The following animals shall be afforded due protection: 
I. Mammalia. 
1. Bats, all kinds of, at any period. 
2. Moles, except in flower and kitchen gardens and nurs- 
eries, where the may be destroyed. 
3. Shrew-mice, all kinds of, except the water-shrew, which 
in noxious to fishing. 
4. Hedgehogs. 
II. Birds. 
*Kestrel — Cerchneis tinnunculus.^ 
*Red-legged Falcon — Cerchneis vespertina. 
^ The birds which are asterisked (*) are in the schedule of the 
International Convention. The three species of falcon were included 
on the basis of the ratified Convention. 
