350 TlMEHRI. 
large exporter would scarcely feel the imposition of the 
charge for a licence unless it were unduly high. 
As regards birds, the question is somewhat more simple, 
for by the provisions of the Ordinance for the prote6lion 
of wild birds, extremely stringent regulations exist against 
their being killed at all. Thus unless a special licence 
has been granted by a Governor of the colony for killing 
and exporting wild birds, only those few wild birds, such 
as the more commonly known " game-birds/ ' which are 
specified in the second schedule of the Ordinance, are 
allowed to be killed during certain months of the year, 
such months being from September to March inclusive. 
Beyond this, except to Indians, all other birds are prac- 
tically forbidden to be killed at any time whatever, under 
a penalty of $24 per bird or part of a bird, unless it can 
be shewn that such bird or birds had been killed for the 
purposes of food, and at a distance of more than 10 miles 
from a sugar plantation. I say pra6lically, for by the terms 
used in the first schedule of the Ordinance, the birds 
named comprise nearly all birds, since while one or two refer 
to individual birds, the other terms denote whole groups, 
such as cotinga, cassiques, humming-bird, hawk, wood- 
pecker, creeper, jacamar, kingfisher, trogon, toucan, shrike 
tanager, etc., among which are included all the familiar 
and rare birds of gorgeous plumage. It may perhaps be 
doubted whether such a wide application was intended 
by the original legislators ; but, however that may be, 
the terms used in the Ordinance are thus really inclusive 
and prohibitive. 
♦ 
Value of Gold to the Indians in the Past. — The 
following extratt from the " Table of Rivers etc. of 
