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shooting. The automatic shot-gun is banned both 

 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a gun holding 

 more than two cartridges being prohibited in the 

 latter State. The automatic, the pump-gun, the 

 automobile, the search-light, and other unfair 

 means of taking game-birds will doubtless be 

 legislated against throughout the entire Union 

 within a few years. The fact that they have not 

 already universally been done away with affords 

 an argument for those in favor of exclusive 

 federal control of game. 



The need of narrow bag-limits is so obvious that 

 it calls for no further discussion. The same may 

 be said of the regulation forbidding the sale of 

 game. And yet there are four States which still 

 allow the sale of upland game-birds, and in one, 

 Wyoming, native birds taken within the State may 

 be placed on the market. The sale of migratory 

 birds, however, is everywhere prohibited by 

 federal law. 



The Audubon Law, as drawn up by the American 

 Ornithologists' Union in 1886, has been incorpor- 

 ated into the federal Migratory Bird Law, thus 

 protecting all insectivorous birds not fit for game 

 throughout the United States. This in a measure 

 does away with the need for each separate State 

 to have a similar law of its own. 



Some kind of license law has been adopted by 

 all States, but not all of them require their own 

 citizens to have hunting-licenses. Non-resident 



