134 THE PROTECTION OF WILD BIRDS IN ESSEX.
the 15th day of August (both inclusive) in any part of the County of
Essex under a penalty of £1 for every bird so taken or killed,
and for refusing to give his name and place of abode when desired
by any person who may discover him committing the offence, a further
penalty of 10s. It may be well to give the list of birds scheduled
as "Wild Birds" under the above Order ; we quote the official
names of the birds without alteration—it will be noticed that
some species are mentioned more than once under different
appellations1 :—
American Quail — Auk — Avocet — Bee Eater — Bearded Tit (Reedling or
Reed Pheasant) — Bittern — Bonxie — Buzzard — Colin — Cornish Chough —
Coulterneb — Cuckoo — Curlew — Diver — Dotterill — Dunbird — Dunlin — Eider
Duck — Fern Owl — Fulmar — Gannet — Goatsucker — Godwit — Goldfinch —
Grebe — Greenshank — Guillemot — Gull (except Black-backed Gull) — Hobby —
Honey Buzzard — Hoopoe — Kestrel — Kingfisher — Kittiwake — Lapwing — Loon
— Magpie — Mallard — Marrot — Martins (Hirundo urbica, Hirundo riparia) —
Merganser — Merlin — Murre — Night Hawk — Night Jar — Nightingale — Oriole
— Osprey — Owl — Oxbird — Oyster Catcher — Peewit — Petrel — Phalarope—
Plover — Ploverspage — Pochard — Puffin — Purre — Razorbill — Redshank —
Reeve or Ruff — Roller — Sanderling — Sandpiper — Scout — Sealark — Seamew—
Sea Parrot — Sea Swallow — Shearwater — Shelldrake — Shoveller — Shrikes
(Lanius collurio, Lanius minor, Lanius excubitor) — Skua — Smew — Snipe — Solan
Goose — Spoonbill — Stint — Stone Curlew — Stonehatch — Summer Snipe—
Swallow — Swift — Tarrock — Teal — Tern — Thicknee — Tystey — Whaup —
Whimbrel — Widgeon — Wild Duck — Willock — Woodcock — Woodpecker—
Wryneck (Cuckoo's Mate or Snakebird).
Under the above-named Acts, the Eggs of the following
species are protected within the Metropolitan Police District
area, and the penalty is £1 on conviction for every egg taken or
destroyed :—
Nightingale — Goldfinch — Lark (Alauda arvensis, Alauda arborea) — Night-
jar — Woodpeckers (Gecinus viridis, Picus major, Picus minor) — Kingfisher —
Cuckoo — Owls (Asio otus, Strix flammea, Syrnium aluco) — Kestrel — Buzzard —
Honey Buzzard — Merlin — Hobby — Osprey — Wryneck (Cuckoo's Mate or
Snakebird) — Swallow — Martins (Hirundo urbica, Hirundo riparia) — Swift —
Bearded Tit (Reedling or Reed Pheasant) — Shrikes (Lanius collurio, Lanius
minor, Lanius excubitor) — Magpie — Wheatear — Stonechat — Whinchat — Red-
start — Flycatchers (Muscicapa grisola, Muscicapa atricapilla) — Sedge Warbler —
Reed Warbler — Blackcap — Garden Warbler — Wood Warbler — Willow Warb-
ler — Chiffchaff — Whitethroat — Lesser Whitethroat — Long-tailed Tit — Nut-
hatch — Wren — Golden-crested Wren — Wagtails (Motacilla viridis, Motacilla
lugubris, Motacilla melanope, Motacilla raii) — Hawfinch — Linnet — Buntings
(Emberiza rustica, Emberiza melanocephala, Emberiza citrinella) — Starling — Land-
rail or Corncrake — Coot
1 These schedules are in other ways very vexatious and ineffective. If all birds cannot
be. protected (and wherefore not?), surely, as Mr. Collinson has said, the right principle
would be to enumerate just those species which are outside the pale of protection, not those
which arc within it.