MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. 200 
by paragraph (1) Section 2, which empowers the prohibition of the taking or 
destroying the eggs of all wild birds in certain specified areas, this they 
would like to see applied to the whole of the foreshore of the County from 
Wolferton Creek to Gorleston North Pier, and in this opinion they are 
strengthened by correspondence which they have had with some of the 
largest landowners on the coast, but they have not yet had the opportunity 
of making the necessary advances to all those whose rights would have to be 
considered, and must therefore, for the present, be content with advocating 
a less ambitious scheme. They beg to recommend, with the full consent 
and approval of the owners of the soil, or those possessing rights over the 
same, that the following specified areas be suggested to the County Council 
for application to be made to the Secretary of State to put in force 
Section 2(1) of the Act, thereby rendering illegal “the taking or destroying 
of wild birds’ eggs, in any year or years, in any of the areas specified, viz. : 
[Then follow the particulars as to the areas recommended, which will be 
found set forth as finally adopted in paragraph ii. of the Secretary of State’s 
order, printed at the end of this article.] 
The Committee believe that within these boundaries the principal breeding 
places of the shore birds on the Norfolk coast will be included. They do 
not think it desirable for a public body to make any suggestion with regard 
to inland sites, which should be left to the owners or occupiers to deal with 
ill their discretion; but they would cordially support a memorial which will 
in due time be presented to the County Council, asking for protection to be 
extended to a specified area in the district of the Broads. 
The above recommendations, if adopted, will, it is Ixdievod, to a great 
extent protect the shore-breeding birds, which congregate in numbers in 
very small areas at the nesting period, but there are a few species, named 
below, which this Committee think, from their being scattered at the 
breeding season over a large extent of country, their great rarity, or other 
causes, might with advantage be protected throughout the whole of the 
county under the jurisdiction of the Norfolk County Council, and this they 
think could best be done through the medium of Section 2 (2) of the Act, 
prohibiting the taking or destroying the eggs of certain named species— the 
species alluded to are as follows : 
See paragraph iii. of the Secretary of State’s order.] 
The Committee further approve the suggested placing of the Bearded 
Titmouse or Reed Pheasant on the Schedule of the principal Act (1880), 
and would recommend that the name of the Crossbill bo also added. 
The Committee also recommend that the close time for the eggs of all the 
birds which it is deemed desirable to protect, and of the protected areas, 
should be from the 1st day of May to the 1st day of August, both inclusive. 
IV ere it possible to enlist the services of the men of the Coastguard, they 
would be of the greatest use in carrying the Act into effect. 
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
(Signed) THOMAS SOUTHWELL, 
Ex-President Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. 
