Excerpt from The Scottish Naturalist, 1920: A Magazine Devoted to Zoology; With Which Is Incorporated "the Annals of Scottish Natural History" The simplification of the present state of the law regarding bird protection is a most important point. Under the Committee's recommendation this would be attained by a new Act, which would supersede all former Acts and Orders, would apply compulsorily to the whole country, and would produce a state of uniformity in bird protection which has not hitherto been achieved in our islands. The first point the Committee had to decide was whether to recommend a modification of the present system which is to name the birds specially protected and leave unprotected any not specifically mentioned, or to protect all birds except certain very common and harmful species named in a black list. After much deliberation they decided, very wisely we think, on the former course of action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.