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kill, trap or expose for sale any robin, blackbird, meadow 

 lark or starling, save during the months of August, Septem- 

 ber, October, November, and December ; nor destroy or 

 rob the nests of any wild birds whatever, under a penalty 

 of five dollars for each bird so killed, trapped, or exposed 

 for sale, and for each nest destroyed or robbed. This sec- 

 tion shall not apply to any person who shall kill or trap any 

 bird for the purpose of studying its habits or history, or 

 having the same stuffed and set up as a specimen ; nor to 

 any person who shall kill on his own premises any robin 

 during the period when summer fruits or grapes are ripen- 

 ing, provided such robin is killed in the act of destroying 

 such fruits or grapes. 



PINNATED GROUSE. 



Sec. 7. No person shall, at any time within ten years 

 from the passage of this act, kill any pinnated grouse, com- 

 monly called the prairie fowl, unless upon grounds owned 

 by them, and grouse placed thereon by said owners, under 

 a penalty of ten dollars for each bird so killed. 



WOODCOCK, RUFFED GROUSE, QUAIL, RAIL, AND PAR- 

 TRIDGE. 



Sec. 8. No person shall kill, or have in his or her pos- 

 session, except alive, for the purpose of preserving the same 

 alive through the winter, or expose for sale any woodcock 

 or ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, between the 

 first day of January and the first day of September, or kill 

 any quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, between the 

 first day of January and the twentieth day of October, or 

 have the same in possession, or expose the same for sale 

 between the first day of February and the twentieth day of 

 October, or have in his possession any pinnated grouse, 

 commonly called prairie chicken, or expose the same for 



