Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CLOSE-TIME FOR WILD BIRDS. 179 feeling in their favour has taken root. We feel certain that any proposed enactment for their protection would not meet with the opposition that is feared. As our readers may like to know who are the gentlemen forming the Close-time Committee, we may state that the reports are usually signed by from six to eight names, including regularly those of the Rev. H. F. Barnes, formerly Vicar of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and one of the originators of an Association for the Protection of Sea Birds in that district; Mr, H. E. Dresser (Hon. Sec), author of "Birds of Europe"; Mr. J. E. Harting, author of a "Handbook of British Birds" and editor of the Zoologist; Professor Newton, F.R.S., Cambridge University; and the Bev. Canon Tristram, author of "The Ornithology of Palestine," &c. Those whose names have also occurred, but less frequently, have been Mr. C. Spence Bate, author of" Sessile-eyed Crustacea;" Dr. Giinther, F.R.S., head of the Zoological Department, British Museum; Mr. T. Harland, of Bridlington, another of the originators of the Sea Birds Protection Association; Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.E.S., author of " British Conchology;" Et. Hon. G. J. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., now First Commissioner of Works; and Mr. T. J. Monk, a Sussex naturalist. Close Time Fob Wild Bibds. Until within the last few years our wild birds were unprotected by the Legislature, except such as were included in the Game Laws; and even some of these had no close season. Now, however, by the Acts of 1880 and 1881, all wild birds are alike protected from March 2 to July 81 inclusive, except in St. Kilda. One section of the Act of 1880 authorises the extension or variation of the close season. The powers given have already been taken advantage of in...
