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Surrey (particularly as regards so much of them as lies within 
the Metropolitan Police District), and eggs have been or will 
be protected in them belonging to birds which elsewhere are 
expected to look after themselves. 
Lastly, there are the special areas set aside to encourage the 
breeding of rare and timid birds. With care this method may 
be of very great use, for it will be comparatively easy to ad- 
minister a provision of this nature, that is to say, the prohibition 
of all interference with eggs of any kind within specified districts. 
In eight counties up to the present time arrangements have 
been made in this direction, and though it is not easy to de- 
scribe the special areas without maps, a general idea may be 
given of them. Wicken Sedge Fen in Cambridgeshire, a large 
part of the Wirral in Cheshire, Lundy, and a considerable 
stretch of the coast (including the Lynton district) in Devon- 
shire, Spurn Point and its surroundings in the East Riding, 
much of the sea-coast of East Suffolk and of Essex, not a little 
of the parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and the majority of the 
Norfolk Broads have all been marked out in this manner. As 
it is one of the provisions of the Act that copies of the Orders 
shall be exhibited in the places affected, it will be nearly as 
easy as it is desirable for Selbornians to make themselves 
acquainted with these bird asylums, and to take care that they 
are generally known and respected. 
Mere we must close our account of this interesting experi- 
ment on behalf of our feathered friends. The description of the 
Orders has necessarily been brief and bare, but complete in- 
formation can be gained with comparatively little trouble. 
Every Order is published in full in the London Gazette on the 
Tuesday or Friday immediately following the date under which 
the Secretary of State’s signature is appended to it, and is also, 
in due course, printed and put on sale after the fashion of 
Parliamentary Papers. Hence, though a collection of all the 
Orders might be somewhat laborious, and perhaps unnecessary, 
there can be little or no difficulty for any one of our readers in 
obtaining a copy of the Order affecting the county in which 
he is most interested. Still further to facilitate this, a list is 
here added of all the Orders made up to the time of going to 
press — several others are contemplated — in England and Wales, 
with their dates. The figures after each Order denote which of 
the four varieties of possible provisions it contains : — 
Bedfordshire (i), (2), (3) 
Cambridgeshire {4) ... 
Cheshire (i), (2), (3), (4) 
Cornwall (3) 
Devonshire (2), (3), (4) 
Ea-st Riding (i), (4) 
East Suffolk (4) 
Essex (2), (3), (4) ... 
Glamorganshire (3) ... 
Gloucestershire (3) ... 
February 17, 1896 
September 23, 1895 
July 10, „ 
December 12, 1894 
November 27, 1895 
May 10, April I, ,, 
December 24, ,, 
February 6, 1896 
March ll, 1895 
February 3, 1896 
