10 BIRDS OF MAINE. 



provision dealer having an established place of business in this 

 state, from purchasing at his place of business, any bird lawfully 

 caught, killed or destroyed, or any part thereof, and selling the 

 same in open season at retail to his local customers. 



1889, c. 248 § 22. Whoever, at any time or in any place, with 

 any trap, net, snare, device or contrivance, other than the usual 

 method of sporting with fire-arms, takes wild duck of any variety, 

 quail, grouse, partridge or woodcock, forfeits five dollars for each 

 bird so taken. 



1889, c. 249, § 23. Whoever, kills or has in his possession, 

 except alive, any birds commonl}' known as larks, robins, swallows, 

 sparrows or orioles, or other insectivorous birds, crows, English 

 sparrows, and haAvks excepted, forfeits not less than one dollar, 

 nor more than five dollars, for each such bird killed, and the posses- 

 sion by any person of such dead bird, is prima facie evidence that 

 he killed such bird. 



E, S., c. 30, § 24. Whoever at any time wantonly takes or 

 destroys the nest, eggs, or unfledged young of any wild bird except 

 crows, hawks and owls, or takes any eggs or young from such 

 nests, except for the purpose of preserving the same as specimens, 

 or of rearing said young alive, forfeits not less than one dollar nor 

 more than ten dollars for each nest, egg, or young so taken or 

 destroyed. 



TRANSPORTATION . 



R. S., c. 30, § 25. Whoever carries or transports from place to 

 place, any of the birds named herein, during the period in which 

 the killing of such bird is prohibited, forfeits five dollars for each 

 bird so carried or transported. 



PROTECTION OF CAPERCAILIZE AND OTHER BIRDS. 



1895, c. 149, § 1. It shall be unlawful for a term of five years 

 to hunt for, take, catch, kill or destroy any of the following named 

 birds under a penalt}'^ of fifty dollars for the offense, and twenty- 

 five dollars for every bird so taken, caught, killed or destroyed. 

 The capercailzie, or cock of the woods, so called, black game, so 

 called, or any species of the pheasant, except the partridge, so 

 called. 



Sect. 2. All fines and penalties under this act, shall be enforced 

 in the same manner, as for the violation of laws relating to the 

 illegal killing of game. 



