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pigeon shall have the name of its owner stamped on its wing, or tail, or which may 

 be identified by any device or mark, and any person or persons so detaining such 

 pigeon or pigeons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction 

 shall for every offense pay a fine of not less than ten or not more than twenty-five 

 dollars or be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety 

 days, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 



This act is ordered to take effect June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. 



Approved May 24, 1893. 



[ Act No. 24 of the Laws of 1893. J 



AN ACT to prevent the killing, hunting, or molesting in any way of Mongolian 

 and English pheasant for a period of five years, and to regulate the time for 

 hunting and for selling or offering for sale the same after that period. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That no person or persons 

 shall pursue, hunt, kill, or attempt to kill or molest in any way whatever any Mongo- 

 lian and English pheasants until the first day of November, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-eight, and then only from the first day of November to the fifteenth day of 

 December, inclusive, in each year. 



Sec. 2. No person, firm, or corporation, shall for a period of ten years from and 

 after the passage of this act sell, or attempt to sell, or expose for sale, or ship or 

 transport outside of this state, or attempt to ship or transport outside of this state 

 or have in possession for the purpose of shipping or transporting outside of this state 

 any Mongolian and English pheasant. 



Sec. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less 

 than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, 

 and in default of the payment of the same shall be imprisoned in the county jail 

 for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the 

 discretion of the court. 



Approved March 30, 1893. 



GENERAL LITERATURE. 



Coues, Dr. Elliott, 1890— Key to North American Birds. Very fully illustrated,. 

 This work is very complete and admirable, an excellent manual in my judgment, 

 for either the beginner or advanced student. The complete anatomy, full 

 descriptions, excellent artificial key, and admirable illustrations make it indispens- 

 able to every student of ornithology. The nomenclature and arrangement are not 

 the latest, but an appendix corrects this, in a manner that is very convenient and 

 desirable. Price S7.50. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, Mass. 



Ridgway, Robert, 1889 — Manual of North American Birds. This is simply a man- 

 ual, and is very excellent for one who wishes simply to study systematic ornithology. 



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