PROTECTION 
LXXXIX 
6. The taking or destroying the eggs of the Lapwing is 
hereby prohibited after the fifteenth day of April in each 
year. 
7. This Order, which may be cited as " The Wild Birds 
Protection (County of Dumfries) Order, 1908," shall take 
effect on the first day of March, 1908, and shall remain in 
force until the twenty-eighth day of February, 1911. 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Whitehall, 
this 30th day of January, 1908. 
(Signed) JOHN SINCLAIR, 
His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland. 
In terms of the Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880 to 1904, the 
Joint Committee of the County of Dumfries and Burghs 
hereby give public notice of above order by the Secretary for 
Scotland, 
JOHN ROBSON, Clerk of the Committee. 
County Buildings, Dumfries, 10th February, 1909. 
A circular, of which the following is a copy, explaining the 
preceding Wild Birds Protection Order, and setting forth 
the penalties incurred by its contravention, is circulated 
annually, by means of the County Police and others, with the 
statutory publication of the Order throughout the county : — 
COUNTY OF DUMFRIES. 
Wild Birds Protection. 
1. Briefly the Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880 to 1904, 
as applicable to the County of Dumfries, and the Wild Birds 
Protection (County of Dumfries) Order, 1908, made by the 
Secretary for Scotland in terms of these Acts, made it unlaw- 
ful— 
(a) For any person at any time to take or kill any of the following 
wild birds, viz. : — 
Kestrel Owl, Short-eared 
Kingfisher Owl, Tawny 
Osprey Peregrine Falcon 
Owl, Barn Sheld Duck 
Owl, Long-eared Woodpecker, Great 
Spotted 
Buzzard 
Chough 
Dotterel 
Goldfinch 
Great-crested Grebe 
