INSECT-EATING BIRDS. 



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and July 1 , any marsh-birds or upland plover ; between 

 March 1 and September 1 , any fresh-water fowl ; and who- 

 ever after November 1, 1872, takes or kills any quail or Vir- 

 ginia partridge, 

 except in the 

 months of No- 

 vember and De- 

 cember annually, 

 and whoever, at 

 any season of the 

 year within this 

 State , takes or 

 kills any of the 

 birds called pin- 

 nated grouse or 

 heath-hens , or 



sells, buys or has Rg. is.— Meadow-lark. SUirnella magna. 



in his possession any of said birds so killed or taken ; and 

 whoever, at any season of the year within this State, kills any 

 fresh-water fowl or sea-fowl, either on the feeding or roosting- 

 grounds of said fowl, shooting from 

 any vessel, boat or craft, or chases 

 or pursues and captures said fowl 

 upon or from their feeding or roost- 

 ing-grounds in any boat or vessel 

 of any kind whatever; and who- 

 ever at any season of the year takes 

 or kills any undomesticated bird not 

 heretofore mentioned in this act, 

 except snipe, hawks, owls, crows, 

 jays and gulls, or destroys or dis- 

 turbs the nests or eggs of such un- 

 domesticated birds, except the nests 

 and eggs of hawks, owls, crows, 

 jays and gulls, without having first 

 obtained from the mayor and aldermen of any city or select- 

 men of any town, a written consent to take or destroy for 

 scientific purposes only, such birds and eggs as said writ- 

 ten consent may specify, shall forfeit for every such oflence 

 twenty-five dollars. The mayor and aldermen and selectmen 



Fig. 19.. 



-Bobolink. Dolichronyx 

 oryzivorua. 



