208 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. 
The Act thus having been obtained, a proposal for its application 
was discussed in the Norfolk County Council, when our Society 
again urged its views, and following in the wake of the Lincoln- 
shire Naturalists’ Union, presented the following resolution to the 
County. Council, on the 2nd February, 1895 : 
“The members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society learn 
with pleasure that the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union having laid before 
the County Council of the parts of Lindsey their views with regard to the 
enforcement of the provisions of the Wild Birds Protection Act of 1880 as 
amended in 1894, that body has decided to apply to the Home Secretary 
to put in force the powers of the Act conferred by Section 2, thereby 
prohibiting the taking of the eggs of any wild birds within a well-defined 
area along the coast of Lincolnshire, between the 1st day of May and the 
1st day of August. The Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, as 
represented by this meeting, would respectfully suggest to the County 
Council of Norfolk that a similar protection should be extended to certain 
breeding haunts under their jurisdiction, hereafter to be decided upon, of 
eas} r definition, and frequented by a number of birds which are in great 
danger of extermination. They also wish to record their opinion that any 
attempt to protect named species would prove abortive, owing to the 
great difficulty of obtaining a conviction, chiefly in consequence of the 
impossibility of distinguishing the eggs of some species of birds which 
require protection from those of other species which need not lie included in 
the schedule.” 
The result was that the Wild Birds Protection Committee of the 
County Council requested our Society to furnish them more fully 
with their views upon the subject, and the following report was 
drawn up by a sub-committee appointed for the purpose and duly 
presented : — 
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION 
COMMITTEE, NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL. 
Castle Museum, Norwich, 
19th February, 1895. 
Sir, 
The Committee of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society 
having considered the resolution passed by your Committee at the meeting 
held on the 2nd February, 1895, and submitted to them, they having also 
had the advantage of the advice of the following members of the Society, 
not present at these consultations, viz., The Earl of Leicester, Mr. Cresswell 
(Lynn), Mr. le Strange (Hunstanton), Colonel Foilden (Wells), Sir Edward 
Newton (Lowestoft), and others— beg to report as follows: — 
The Committee are strongly of opinion that the most advantageous mode 
of applying the Act in the County of Norfolk would be that provided for 
