§ [The references are to Bile No. 60.]
§ Clause 1, page 1, line 13, at end insert ("other than close-ringed specimens bred in captivity ").
VISCOUNT BUCKMASTERMy Lords, the first Amendment is a small one, to which I do not think any close attention is needed. It is to provide that there should be excepted from the Bill what are called "close-ringed specimens bred in captivity." I very much doubt whether it was necessary to put this in. Apparently there are special birds, specially bred with rings which describe their ancestry. They have a variety of other qualities and people are anxious to safeguard them, and anxious that the Bill shall not affect these birds. It was never intended that it should.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Viscount Buckmaster.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.