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PROTECTION OF BIRDS.
The Agricultural Committee bill, [H. R. 225] to amend section two, of the act to provide for the protection of wild game, defining the time in which the same may be taken and killed, prescribing penalty, etc., approved March 11, 1867, and, also, to provide for the protection of certain birds therein named, and for the protection of their eggs, was taken up on the third reading.
On motion of Mr. Butts, (by unanimous consent) the black bird was stricken from the protected list.
The bill passed the House of Representatives yeas, 56; nays, 24.
