164 NEBRASKA STATK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



APPENDIX. 



THE BIRD LAW OF NEBKASKA. 

 (Consolidated Statutes of Nebraska, Cobbey, 1891, aud Sessions Laws of 1893 and 



1895.) 



Sec. 5664. It shall be unlawful for any person in the state of Ne- 

 braska to knowingly and intentionally kill, injure, or harm, except on 

 the lands owned by such person, any robin, lark, thrush, blue-bird, 

 king-bird, sparrow, wren, jay, swallow, turtle-dove, oriole, wood- 

 pecker, yellowhaiumer, cuckoo, yellow-bird, bobolink, or other bird or 

 birds of like nature that promote agriculture and horticulture by feed- 

 ing on noxious worms and insects, or that are attractive in appearance 

 or cheerful in song. Any person violating any of the provisions of 

 this section shall be fined not less than three (3) nor more than (10) 

 dollars for each bird killed, injured, or harmed. 



Sec. 5666. (As amended in Session Laws, 1893.) It shall also be 

 unlawful for any person, at any time, by the aid or use of any swivel, 

 punt gun, big gun (so called), or any other than the common shoulder 

 gun ; or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for car- 

 rying such gun, to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after 

 with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy, upon any waters, bays, 

 rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort 

 within the state of Nebraska, any wild goose, wood duck, teal, canvas- 

 back, blue-bill, or other wild duck, or to destroy or disturb the eggs 

 of any of the birds above named; and any person offending against 

 any of the provisions of this act shall be fined in any sum not less 

 than two ($2) dollars, nor more than twenty ($20) dollars, for each 

 offense, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than twenty (20) 

 days. 



Sec. 5667. (In part.) It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, 

 ensnare, or trap any grouse between the first day of January and the 

 first day of September in each year, or to kill, ensnare, trap, or net 

 quail or wild turkey between the first day of January and the first 

 day of October in each year, or to ensnare, trap, or net the same at 

 any time of the year, or to buy, sell, ship, transport, or carry, or have 



