APPENDIX TO PART I 175 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Open seasons. — Bear, October 15 to December 15; raccoon, September 1 

 to December 31. No open season for beaver. Foxes may not be trapped, shot, 

 snared, or poisoned in Delaware County. 



Trapping. — Nonresident trapper requires license (fee, $10). Unlawful to 

 trap bears, and only one may be killed in a season or three to a camp or body of men. 

 No steel traps larger than No. 3 size may be used for trapping wildcats or other fur 

 animals. Resident requires no license for trapping, but hunting licenses required 

 for killing raccoons or bears, which are regarded as "game" animals (fee, $1). 



Propagation. — No restrictions on raising fur animals, except that possession 

 and breeding of ferrets is unlawful except under license from the State board of 

 game commissioners; fee for license to breed and sell ferrets, $25; to possess a 

 ferret without breeding, $1. 



Bounties. — Wildcat, #8 ; fox, $2 ; mink, $1 ; weasel, $2 ; paid from special 

 fund created by setting aside one-half the receipts by the board of game com- 

 missioners from gun licenses, fines, etc. 



PORTO RICO. 



Porto Rico has no wild fur animals. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Open seasons. — Skunk, muskrat, and mink, November 1 to April 15 ; raccoon, 

 November 1 to February 1. Landowners may kill protected animals on their 

 own lands at any time. 



Trapping. — Hunting license is required for trapping, except on one's own 

 lands; fee, resident, $1 ; nonresident, #10; alien, #15; together with an additional 

 fee of 15 cents for issuing license. Unlawful to trap on posted lands or on lands 

 of another without written permission. Unlawful to set wire snares, or to use steel 

 traps with teeth or with spread over 6 inches, or choke traps with greater opening 

 than 6 inches. Traps must be concealed so as not to endanger domestic animals 

 and must be visited at least once in 24 hours. 



Propagation. — No legislation. 



Bounties. — Fox, $3; crow and certain hawks and owls, 25 cents; paid by 

 State. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Open seasons. — Bear, mink, muskrat, opossum, otter, raccoon, and skunk, 

 October I to March 15; fox, September 1 to February 15. Foxes and wildcats 

 may be killed without license at any time by officers of the law and landowners 

 upon their own holdings. 



