The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Twenty-First Annual Report: January 1st to December 31st, 1911, With Proceedings of Annual Meeting, 191

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Excerpt from The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Twenty-First Annual Report: January 1st to December 31st, 1911, With Proceedings of Annual Meeting, 1912By the Act of 1880 no species objected to as destructive and increasing is protected at any time of the year from an occupier of land. He may kill, or bid his servants kill, all the commoner birds of farm and garden. The abuses which have crept in under this provision are many and grave: prejudice and ignorance have full sway in bird destruction, the bird-catcher steals in as authorised servant of the farmer the possessor of a back yard and a bird-trap becomes an occupier. But when it is further proposed to impinge upon the whole intention and Spirit of the Act by dropping the close-time provision for any species, and giving every child, hooligan, and bird-catcher, power to destroy or capture such birds during the breeding season, in Open country and on public land, the matter calls for serious consideration. It will clearly be impossible to stop destruction at particular Species where close-time law is once relaxed and the use of guns, nets, traps, and other instruments for taking nesting-birds and young, is legalised on the seashore or in the country lane.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.