212 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. 
(1) The taking or destroying of Wild Birds’ Eggs, in any year or years, 
in any place or places within that County, or 
(2) The taking or destroying the eggs of any specified kind of Wild 
Birds within that County, or part or parts thereof. 
Your Memorialists, whilst fully recognising that the eggs of certain birds 
should never be taken or destroyed, are strongly of opinion that the objects 
of the above mentioned Acts of Parliament can better be effected by 
entirely prohibiting the taking or destroying of Wild Birds’ Eggs in certain 
districts, than by prohibiting the taking and destroying the eggs of certain 
specified Wild Birds ; in other words, that protection by districts is better 
than protection by species. 
Your Memorialists would indicate the following as districts which are 
specially deserving of protection, and in which the taking or destroying of 
Wild Birds’ Eggs should be totally prohibited after the 30tli day of April 
iu every year ; that is to say : 
[Here follow the specifications as set out in paragraph No. 1 of the 
Secretary of State’s order.] 
Your Memorialists therefore pray that you will be pleased to take the 
matter into your consideration, and thereupon make application to a 
Secretary of State for an Order prohibiting the taking or destroying 
of Eggs of any Species of Wild Bird in or upon any of the before 
mentioned Districts, after the 30th day of April in any and every year. 
Dated this 2nd day of Eebruary, 1895. 
The final result was that the following order was issued by the 
Home Secretary, to come into force on the 1st of May, 1895, and 
to continue for one year : 
In pursuance of the powers conferred on me by the Wild Birds Protection 
Act, 1894, and upon application by the County Council of the Administrative 
County of Norfolk, I hereby make the following Orders: — - 
I. The taking or destroying of the Eggs of any species of Wild Birds 
is prohibited for a period of one year from the 1st day of May, 1895, 
within the following areas : — 
Hickling Broad, Whitesley and Heigham Sounds, Blackfleet Broad, 
Horsey Mere, Martham and Somerton Broads, and the Rands, 
Skirts, and Walls thereof, and Pens and Reed Grounds appertaining 
thereto respectively, and the Islands therein, and the Dykes com- 
municating therewith, including the Hundred Stream or Thurue 
River, and ancient bed, and the Rauds and Walls thereof from 
Heigham Bridge to the Sea at Winterton, and all the Marshes and 
low-lying and uncultivated Lands, Pens, Reed Grounds, Warrens, 
Marram or Sand Hills and Sea Shore, to the line of high water 
mark, in the several parishes of Waxham, Horsey, Potter Heigham, 
and Hickling, and such part of the Parish of Catfield as lies to the 
East of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. 
