to wrap each egg in tissue-paper after rolling it in wool, as, if this is not done the egg frequently works out of the wool and gets broken.
The whole of the apparatus described fits into a box twelve inches long by six inches deep and six wide, and may be seen at Messrs. T. Cooke & Son's, 30, Museum Street, London, who will be happy to show it.
WILD FOWL PRESERVATION.
[We have received so many enquiries concerning the "Wild Birds Protection Act, 1872," and the "Wild Fowl Preservation Act, 1876," from correspondents who are anxious to know how the law at present stands on the subject that we think it desirable to print the two Acts in extenso. In doing so, we need only observe that had the legislature acted upon the recommendations of the promoters of the Bill of 1872, that is to say, the Committee of Naturalists appointed by the British Association, there would now have been one Act instead of two, much confusion would have been avoided, and such a period would have been fixed for the close-time as would have met with general approbation. Unfortunately the recommendations referred to were not adopted.—Ed.]
[35 & 36 Vict., Chapt. 78.]
An Act for the Protection of certain Wild Birds during
the Breeding Season.
[10th August, 1872.]
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the protection of certain wild birds of the United Kingdom during the breeding season:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same:
L That the words "wild bird" shall for all purposes of this Act be deemed to include the birds specified in the schedule to this Act; the word "sheriff" shall include steward and also sheriff substitute and steward substitute.
2. Any person who shall knowingly or with intent kill, wound, or take any wild bird, or shall expose or offer for sale any wild
