UTAH.

Laws of 1899, chap. 26, p. 42.

SEC. 21. [Permits killing of mourning doves between July 1 and December 1, but prohibits the robbing or destroying of nests, eggs or young.]

SEC. 22. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, ensnare, net or entrap at any time in any year any gull, owl, hawks, lark, whippoorwill, thrush, swallow, snowbird, robins or other insectivorous or song birds, except the English sparrow, or to rob or destroy the nests, eggs or young of any of said protected birds mentioned in this section.

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SEC. 27. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars. SEC. 29. [It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to ship or cause to be shipped out of the State, any of the birds or any part thereof mentioned in this act.] Approved March 9, 1899.

VERMONT.

Vermont Statutes, 1894, title 31, chap. 189, p. 829.

SEC. 4614. If a person shoots, or otherwise intentionally wounds, entraps, ensnares or captures a wild or undomesticated bird, except quail, woodcock, wild duck, Wilson's or English snipe, ruffed grouse, wild goose, plover, pheasant, English partridge, merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English sparrow, crow black bird, crow, jay, or birds of prey, or if a person destroys the nest or eggs of any wild or undomesticated birds, except the nest or eggs of a merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English sparrow, crow black bird, crow, jay and birds of prey, he shall be fined five dollars for each offense.

SEC. 4613 (as amended November 4, 1898, Act 104, p. 81). [Provides for permits to collect for scientific purposes as follows: "The fish and game commissioners may commission persons, for a time specified, reserving a power of revocation, to take, kill, capture and have in possession any species of birds other than domestic, and the nests and eggs thereof, for scientific purposes only, but the number of such commissions in force at any one time shall not exceed five."]

VIRGINIA. 1

Code, 1887, title 27, chap. 95, p. 520.

SEC. 2079. It shall be unlawful for any person * * *

Third * * * at any time, to kill the turkey buzzard or black buzzard, or to capture, for sale or transportation, or kill the mocking bird, or kill or capture the brown thrush, cardinal or red bird, wood robin, blue bird, house martin, or starling, or destroy their nests or

Fifth * * * to shoot, or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the gull or striker, before the first day of September, or take its eggs later in the season than the twentieth of July.

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SEC. 2080. If any person violate any of the provisions of the preceding section, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, the offender shall be fined ten dollars for each offence and imprisoned in jail until the fine be paid, but not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 2081. The two preceding sections shall not apply to the counties of Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex, Greenesville, Cumberland, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Amelia and Appomattox. * X *

1 No attempt has been made to include the special county laws.

WASHINGTON

-WEST VIRGINIA.

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WASHINGTON.

Session Laws of 1897, Chap. LII, p. 86.

SEC. 9. [Prohibits trapping of wild pigeons under penalty provided in section 18.] SEC. 16. Every person who shall, at any time, take, kill, injure or destroy, trap, ensnare, molest or disturb, or have in his possession, sell, or offer for sale, any nightingale, skylark, black thrush, gray singing thrush, goldfinch, greenfinch, bullfinch, red breasted robin, English robin, black starling, grosbeak, meadow lark, mocking bird, wild canary bird, or other song bird, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 17. Every person who shall at any time, take from the nest of any song bird, the egg or eggs of such birds, or disturb, molest or destroy the nest of the song birds of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 18. Every person convicted of any of the misdemeanors defined in the foregoing sections of this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, together with the costs of the prosecution in such action, and in default of the payment of said fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail one day for each two dollars ($2) of such fine.

Approved March 11, 1897.

Session Laws of 1899, Chap. V, p. 7.

SEC. 1. [Every person who shall kill any sandhill crane between March 1 and August 15 of any year shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.]

WEST VIRGINIA.

Code, 1891, Chap. LXII, p. 604.

SEC. 10 (as amended by Acts of 1897, chap. 30, p. 85). It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with intent to catch, kill or injure, or to have in his possession, either dead or alive, any of the birds, or their kindred or allied species, in this section hereinafter mentioned; and it shall, also, be unlawful for any person to disturb or destroy the eggs or nest of any of the birds or their kindred or allied species, in this section hereinafter named; that is to say: turkey buzzard, the family of pingilladæ [sic] or sparrows, except English sparrows, robin, bluebird, martin, thrush, mocking-bird, swallow, oriole, cat-bird, chewink, wren, cuckoo, indigo-bird, nuthatch, yellow-hammer or flicker, warbler or finch, redstart, dummock, nightingale, crossbill, Hungarian robin, titmouse, tit or tomtit, woodpecker or purple grackle, red-wing, blackbird, blue-jay, phoebe-bird or pewee, redbird or cardinal grosbeck, humming-bird, dove, whip-poor-will and any other bird whose habits are not essentially predatory upon and destructive of the agricultural products of man.

Approved February 24, 1897; in effect May 23, 1897.

SEC. 12. And it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy or disturb the eggs of any of the birds protected by this chapter; and any person offending against any of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, shall be fined in any sum not less than two dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, for each offence on conviction in the proper court, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than twenty days, or both at the discretion of the court, and pay the costs of prosecution. (Acts 1875, chap. 117; 1882, chap. 89.)

WISCONSIN.

Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, chap. 62, vol. 1, p. 1112.

SEC. 1498. The [fish and game] warden may grant, on satisfactory testimonials of well-known scientists only, a certificate to any member of an incorporated society of natural history or to any professor of any university, school or college, or any person properly accredited by any such institution, authorizing such person or institution to collect, for scientific purposes only, the nests, eggs, animals, birds and fish protected by these statutes. No person to whom such certificate is issued or who acts under the same shall dispose of any such specimens except in exchange for scientific purposes.

Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, chap. 185, vol. 2, p. 2759.

SEC. 4563 (as amended by Acts of 1899, chap. 267, sec. 1). [Any person who shall take, catch or kill any wild duck, brant, or any aquatic fowl, excepting wild geese, between January 1 and September 1, shall be punished by a fine of $20 to $50, or by imprisonment of 10 to 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.]

SEC. 4565 (as amended by Acts of 1899, chap. 311, sec. 10, p. 558). Any person who shall catch or kill at any time, or for any purpose whatever, except as author-. ized by law, any whippoorwill, night-hawk, bluebird, finch, thrush, robin, lark, turtle dove, or any other harmless bird shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, provided that this section shall not apply to blackbirds, crows, English sparrows or pigeons for trapshooting.

SEC. 4565a. Any person who shall take or destroy the eggs or nest of any waterfowl or bird, except crows and English sparrows, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ten days.

SEC. 4566a. An attempt to violate any of the provisions of the sections shall be deemed a violation thereof.

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[NOTE. The index refers to 'Birds not killed for millinery purposes, § 4567a, p. 2761.' tion has been found, the one indicated referring to fish.]

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WYOMING.

Session Laws of 1899, chap. 19, p. 31.

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No such sec

SEC. 12. No person shall kill, net or trap within this State, except as hereinafter provided, any * Lark, Whippoorwill, Finch, Thrush, Snow-bird, Turkey Buzzard, Robin or other insectivorous birds. * * *

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, together with costs of suit, and shall be prosecuted and punished in the same manner as in other cases of misdemeanor.

SEC. 13. [Killing of wild swans prohibited at any time under a penalty of $10 to $25 and imprisonment not exceeding 60 days.]

Approved February 15, 1899.

III. CANADIAN LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS.

Measures for the protection of birds in the Provinces of Canada are similar in many respects to those in force in the United States. British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec all have statutes relating to non-game birds, but apparently no such laws are in force in Prince Edward Island or the Northwest Territories. The recent laws of Manitoba have not been seen, and it is possible that some amendment to the Revised Statutes which should be included has been overlooked.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Statutes of 1898, chap. 24, p. 123.

The expression, “game bird,” wherever the same occurs in this Act, shall mean a bird protected by the provisions of this Act. [SEC.] 5. No person other than the importer, on his own property held as a private reserve, shall hunt, trap, take, shoot at, kill or wound any game birds or animals hereafter imported for acclimatization purposes and distributed in any part of the Province, until such time, and thereafter under such regulations, as the Lieutenant-Governor shall appoint and make under the provisions of section 23

hereof.

[SEC.] 7. No eggs of any of the birds mentioned in this Act shall be taken, destroyed or had in possession by any person at any time: Provided, however, It shall be lawful for the Provincial Secretary, on such conditions as he shall think fit, by writing under his hand, to at any time authorise any person to trap or have in his possession any birds, or take eggs, for breeding or acclimatization purposes. * * * [SEC.] 10. It shall be unlawful to catch, kill, destroy or pursue, or to buy, sell, or expose for sale, show or advertisement, any of the game birds or animals during the close seasons and prohibited times of sale set out in the following Schedule B, which is deemed to be part of this Act, or otherwise contravene the provisions thereof.

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[Schedule B declares it unlawful at any time to shoot or destroy, buy, sell, or expose for sale, show, or advertisement, birds living on noxious insects, blackbirds (English), chaffinch, gull, linnet, robin, skylark, thrush, or eggs of protected birds. It is unlawful to shoot or destroy bittern or meadow lark between March 1 and August 31, or to buy, sell, or expose for sale at any time.] [SEC.] 12. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the Curator of the Provincial Museum, or his assistant, assistants, or agent (appointed by him in writing), while collecting specimens of natural history for the Provincial Museum. [SEC.] 23. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor, in Council from time to time to make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, for carrying out the true intent and meaning hereof, and for the protection of game

in the Province, and to provide penalties for the infraction thereof, and such rules and regulations, after being published in two successive issues of the British Columbia Gazette, shall have the force and effect of law.

MANITOBA.

Revised Statutes, 1891, I, chap. 75, p. 803.

[SEC.] 1. This Act may be cited as "The Insectivorous Birds Act."

[SEC.] 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to affect "The Game Protection Act," or to apply to any imported cage birds or other domesticated bird or birds generally known as cage birds, or to any bird or birds commonly known as poultry. (53 V., c. 33, s. 1.)

[SEC.] 3. It shall not be lawful to shoot, destroy, wound or injure, or to attempt to shoot, destroy, kill, wound or injure, any bird whatsoever, save and except eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wild pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans, loons and the birds specially mentioned in "The Game Protection Act." (53 V., c. 33, s. 2.)

[SEC.] 4. It shall not be lawful to take, capture, buy, sell, expose for sale or have in possession any bird whatsoever, save the kinds herein before or hereinafter excepted, or to set, wholly or in part, any net, spring, snare, cage or other machine or engine by which any bird whatsoever, save and except eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wild pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans and loons, might be killed and captured; and any net, trap, spring, snare, cage or other machine or engine, set either wholly or in part for the purpose of capturing or killing any bird or birds, save and except eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wild pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans and loons, may be destroyed by any person without such person incurring any liability therefor. (53 V., c. 33, s. 3.)

[SEC.] 5. It shall not be lawful to take, injure, destroy or have in possession any nest, young or egg of any bird whatsoever, except of eagles, falcons, hawks, owls, wild pigeons, black-birds, king-fishers, jays, crows, English sparrows, ravens, shrikes, bitterns, curlews, cranes, rusty grackle, purple grackle, cormorants, gulls, mergansers, pelicans and loons. (53 V., c. 33, s. 4.)

[SEC.] 7. The Minister of Agriculture and Immigration and all persons authorized by him to that effect may grant written permission to any person or persons who may be desirous of obtaining birds or eggs for bona fide scientific purposes to procure them for those purposes, and such person or persons receiving such permission shall not be liable to any penalty under this Act. (53 V., c. 33, s. 6.)

[SEC.] 8. The violation of any provision of this Act shall subject the offender to a fine of not less than one dollar and not more than twenty dollars, with costs, on summary conviction, on information or complaint before one or more justices of the peace or a police magistrate. (53 V., c 33, s. 7, s-s. 1.)

NEW BRUNSWICK

Acts of the General Assembly of 1899, Chap. VIII, p. 61.

[SEC.] 2. (b) The expression "game" includes any animal or bird mentioned in this Act, or of a species or class similar thereto.

[SEC.] 4. Everyone is guilty of an offence and liable to the penalty hereinafter provided who at any time or season hereafter, in any part of the Province: