The provision relates to imports of quail, lapwing and game birds.
It is also known as the green-crested lapwing.
I do not offer any observations about the lapwing except that there seems to be a hiatus of fourteen days which is not accounted for.
It is a great thing to have got a proposal to prohibit entirely the sale of lapwings' eggs in this country.
I know of one case where a dealer in birds' eggs sold between 20,000 and 25,000 lapwings eggs in one year.
Who will be responsible for collecting the information about what is happening to the lapwing?
That obviously takes the lapwing out of the protection.
The lapwing is a bird by which some county councils set such store that they protect it altogether—eggs, birds, and everything—in their own counties.
