GAME LAWS. 65 



No person shall have in his possession any of the said 

 animals or birds, or any part or portion of such animals 

 or birds, during the periods in which they are so pro- 

 tected ; provided that they may be exposed for sale for 

 one month and no longer after such periods, and may be 

 had in possession for the private use of the owner and his 

 family at any time ; but in all cases the proof of the time 

 of killing or taking shall be upon the party in possession. 



It is enacted that no beaver, musk-rat, mink, marten, 

 raccoon, otter, or fisher shall be hunted, taken, or killed, 

 or had in possession of any person, between the first day 

 of May and the first day of November. 



The penalties attaching to transgressions of this law 

 are as follows : 



In case of moose, cariboo, or deer, $50, and not less 

 than $10. 



In case of birds or eggs, $25, and not less than $5. 



In case of fur-bearing animals, $25, and not less than $5. 



The principal sport in Ontario is shooting. There is 

 no salmon fishing, and for really good trout fishing the 

 angler has to go far back to the streams that flow into 

 Superior. The maskinonge, bass, and pickerell fishing in 

 the lakes hardly comes under the head of sport. 



The only big game is the red deer (Cervus Virginianus), 

 an animal very much smaller than the red deer of Scot- 

 land, and much like the fallow deer. The range of this 

 deer is very wide ; it is found in all the Northern States 

 of the Union, in New Brunswick, in Upper Canada, at the 

 base of the Eocky Mountains, and on the Pacific slope. 

 During the long winters these animals, like the moose, 

 make yards in the greenwoods, and feed on the browse. 



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