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late Town Clerk, Sir Arthur M. Oliver, himself a keen naturalist, who
arranged for the Order to be drawn up under the advice of a local expert.
The Order is divided into three main sections:-
(a) It extends protection to all wild birds throughout the City and
County of Newcastle upon Tyne during the whole of the year. By so doing
it makes the fullest possible use of protection that the Acts allow.
(b) It adds to the Schedule about 40 species which are not already
upon it, thus protecting them against the owner or occupier of any land or
his authorised agent" as well as against the general public. This list includes
the commoner species of birds which normally visit town gardens and
parks.
(c) It protects throughout the City and County the eggs of certain
species of birds, of which a list is given. This list includes the names of
those birds which breed, or might be expected to breed, in gardens and
parks, in Jesmond Dene and on the Town Moor.
The Order throughout is kept as simple and straightforward as
possible and is therefore easy to understand and remember.
THE ORDER FOR THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF
GATESHEAD.
This Order, issued in 1937, appears for the most part to have been
copied from that of Newcastle.
(a) It prohibits the taking or killing of all wild birds within the
Borough.
(b) It adds to the Schedule all the species enumerated in the
Newcastle list; but needlessly increases this already long list by including
such species as the kite and Montagu's harrier-birds which, alas, are never
likely to be seen in Gateshead.
(c) It protects the eggs of exactly the same species as are protected
on the Newcastle Order.
An analysis of the Wild Birds Protection Orders for the County
Boroughs of Tynemouth, South Shields, Sunderland, West Hartlepool,
Darlington and Middlesbrough will be given in the next issue.
(To be continued.)