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bird could be legally killed or taken, or from some person 
residing out of the United Kingdom. This section shall not 
apply to the owner or occupier of any land, or to any person 
authorised by the owner or occupier of any land, killing or 
taking any wild bird or such land not included in the schedule 
hereto annexed. § 4. Where any person shall be found 
offending against this Act, it shall be lawful for any person 
to require the person so offending to give his Christian name, 
surname, and place of above, and in case the person so 
offending shall, after being so required, refuse to give his 
real name or place of abode, or give an untrue name or 
place of abode, he shall be liable on being convicted of any 
such offence to forfeit and pay, in addition to the penalties 
imposed by section three, such sum of money not exceeding 
ten shillings sterling as to the justices or sheriff shall seem 
meet". 
The schedule annexed to the Act is as follows: 
1. American Quail — Ortyx virginianus.^ 
2. Auk — Alca torda. 
3. Avocet — Avozetta recurvirostra. 
*4. Bee-eater — Merops apiaster.^ 
5. Bittern — Botaurus stellaris. 
6. Bonxie — Lestris catarrhactes. 
7. Colin — Ortyx virginianus. 
8. Cornish Chough — Pyrrhocorax graculus. 
9. Coulterneb — Fratercula arctica. 
10. Cuckoo — Cuculus canorus. 
^ I have to thank Dr. E. H. Dresser, the eminent British ornithologist 
and the Tring Museum for translating the names included in the schedule 
into their scientific nomenclature. 
* The species marked by an asterisk are protected by the Con- 
vention. 
