180 SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE INTERN. CONVENTION 
the delegates settle 6 points, which are modified at 
Vienna and them presented to the Italian Government. 
1873. The International Economic and Forestry Congress held 
at Vienna treats exhaustively of the international protect- 
ion of birds. Its resolutions: 
1. Agreement (Convention); points I— IX. 
Schedules of birds to be protected and those to 
be hunted down. 
Prohibitions. 
International Committee. (Tschiidi.) 
2. Agreement (Convention), points I— III. 
Schedules, A ) useful, B) noxious birds. (Marenzeller.) 
3. The cause of the decrease in numbers of birds 
is modern agriculture : by overcrowding of products 
their enemies are increased. 
It is not the taking of birds, but the destruction of 
nesting that is responsible for the decrease in birds. 
Bushes and shrubs must be replaced; hedges 
must be grown. 
Handbooks to be distributed gratis. (A. Brehm.) 
4. An international convention to be drawn up. 
(Setiegast.) 
5. Compromise; accepts the appointment of an inter- 
national committee and settles points I — VII. of 
the basis of the Convention. 
1874. The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture accept the Vienna 
points as a basis for negotiations and considers them good. 
1875. Count Gyula Andrdssy and Visconti-Venosta sign the 
Austro-Hungaro-Italian „Declaration" and decide upon 
the text of the protocol of acceptance. The Declaration 
consists of 9 clauses and does away with the most pow- 
erful Italian instruments, the Roccolo, the Pressanella 
and the Passata The Protocol contains 3 points. 
