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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 42

tion Amendment Act, 1910, for the period commencing on
the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen,
and ending on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine
hundred, and sixteen, with respect to the species of birds
indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Schedule hereto ;
and, with the like advice and consent, doth declare that such
suspension shall be subject to the provisions contained in the
Warrants in respect of the shooting season in each acclimati-
zation district.

SCHEDULE.

PUKEKO, teal, grey duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice.—Animals Protection Acts.—Protection of Native Birds.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th April, 1916.

THE public are earnestly requested to assist in preserving
for posterity the native birds of New Zealand.
Under the Animals Protection Amendment Act of 1910 all
indigenous birds are protected. Every person who destroys
or injures or captures any bird which is indigenous to New
Zealand, including the outlying islands, or robs or destroys
the nest of any such bird, is liable to a fine not exceeding
£20. It is also illegal to keep native birds in captivity or to
export the birds or their skins or feathers without the autho-
rity of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

NATIVE GAME.

Native game can only be shot during the open season, and
then only such kinds of native game as are specified in the
Annual Shooting-season Warrants.

CLOSE SEASON.

Under the Animals Protection Act, the year 1916 and every
third year thereafter is a close season for both imported and
native game.

BIRDS NOT PROTECTED.

By a notification published in the New Zealand Gazette,
protection has been removed for the period ending 31st
December, 1916, from the kea, or mountain parrot, and from
shags of the following species, namely : Black shag, white-
throated shag, sea shag.

NATIVE GAME PROTECTED IN CLOSE SEASONS.

Black stilt plover, black swan, curlew, dotrel, godwit,
native pigeon, pied stilt plover, pukeko, teal, wild duck, wild
goose.

INDIGENOUS BIRDS ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED.

Kiwis of all species, New Zealand quail and Chatham
Island pigeon, rails and woodhens of all species, dabchick
and grebe. Sea birds of all species, including penguins,
petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters, fulmars, diving-petrels,
albatross, terns, gulls, skuas, noddies, and shags (with excep-
tions noted above) ; also gannets, frigate-birds, and tropic
birds. Wading-birds of all species, including turnstones,
oyster-catchers, plovers, wry-bill plovers, avocets, sand-
pipers, knots, snipe, herons, night-herons, reef-herons, and
bitterns. Hawks, owls, and harriers of all species. Parakeets
of all species, and the kaka and kakapo, kingfisher, shining
cuckoo, and long-tailed cuckoo. Riflemen and wrens of all
species, tomtits, warblers, robins, fantails, whiteheads, yellow-
heads, and fern-birds of all species. North and South Island
thrushes and crows, creepers, stitch-birds, makomako, tui,
silver-eye, pipit or native lark, huia, and saddleback. Blue
mountain duck and Auckland Island duck. Southern mer-
ganser, moho (or takahe).

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.