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BIRDS. 
section shall not apply to the owner or occupier of any land, or to 
any person authorised by the owner or occupier of any land, killing or 
taking any wild bird on such land not included in the schedule hereto 
annexed.” 
This, it will be noticed, permits all occupiers to destroy their 
Sparrows (they not being included in the Schedule of Birds and the 
amendment of the same, which I give annexed), and likewise throws 
no difficulty in authorising others— i. e., telling the lads about the 
place—to clear them. The fenced times when this authority is neces¬ 
sary is “ between the first day of March and the first day of August ” ; 
and therefore there is no restriction on destroying the autumn flocks 
by any means in our power. 
With regard to most of our birds, they fill their place serviceably, 
and, unless from some cause there is an overwhelming increase in one 
locality, their presence is desirable. But, with regard to the Sparrows, 
ice see the harm they do; and the long notes I have given on the 
authority of Col. Bussell (than which I believe we can have no better 
evidence) show us that their absence was not followed by increase of 
insect-injury; and we know also the troubles that have followed on 
the introduction of the English Sparrow in Australia, in New Zealand, 
and in North America. 
It appears to me that there is no doubt—1st, of the injury we are 
suffering; 2nd, that by a good watch for the nests we might greatly 
reduce the numbers; 3rd, that we are in no way hindered in doing 
this or lessening the number of our Sparrows in a regular and proper 
manner by the “Wild Birds Protection Act.” 
Wild Birds Protection Act 1880 (43 and 44 Viet.). 
Schedule. 
American Quail 
Fulmar 
Merganser 
Auk 
Gannet 
Murre 
Avocet 
Goatsucker 
Night Hawk 
Bee-eater 
Godwit 
Nightingale 
Bittern 
Goldfinch 
Nightjar 
Bonxie 
Grebe 
Oriole 
Colin 
Greenshank 
Owl 
Cornish Chough 
Guillemot 
Oxbird 
Coulterneb 
Gull (except Black- 
Oystercatcher 
Cuckoo 
backed Gull) 
Peewit 
Curlew 
Hoopoe 
Petrel 
Diver 
Kingfisher 
Phalarope 
Dotterel 
Kittiwake 
Plover 
D unbird 
Lapwing 
Ploverspage 
Dunlin 
Loon 
Pochard 
Eider Duck 
Mallard 
Puffin 
Fern Owl 
Marrot 
Purre 
