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“SAVE me from my foolish friends,” ought to be a stave in the spring-song of each fowl of the air, from the Nightingale which warbleth in darkness to the Dotterel which basketh at noonday. Last year, as is well known, a bill for the protection of “Wild Fowl” was brought into Parliament at the instance of the “Close-time” Committee of the British Association,* and the various changes and chances which befell it before it became an Act were succinctly recounted in the Committee's report at the Brighton meeting, printed in NATURE, vol. vi. p. 363.
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The Wild Birds Protection Act . Nature 8, 1–3 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008001a0
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