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commonly known as ducks, ^eese, brant, and swans; shore birds, 

 connnonly known as plover, snipe, and curlew, and the several species 

 of grouse and ptarmigan. 



'• KxEMi'TioNs. — Nothing in this Act shall atFect any law now in 

 force in Alaska relating to the fur seal, sea otter, or any fur-bearing 

 animal or prevent the killjno: of any game animal or bird for food or 

 clothing at any time by natives, or by miners or explorers, when in 

 need of food; but the game animals or birds so killed during clQse 

 season shall not be shipped or sold. 



Act May 11, 1908. c. 1G2. s. 1, 35 Stat. 102. 



Killing of game animals or birds in Alaska, unlawful, except during open sea- 

 sons; open seasons for certain animals in different latitudes; regulations 

 prohibiting sale of game, modifying close seasons, placing further restric- 

 tions on killing of animals or birds, or prohibiting killing entirely for 

 certain period. 



" SEf. '2. Season. — That it shall be unlawful for any person in 

 Alaska to kill any wild game animals or birds, except during the sea- 

 son hereinafter provided: North of latitude sixty-two degrees, brown 

 bear may be killed at any time; moose, caribou, sheep, walrus, and 

 sea lions from August first to December tenth, both inclusive; south 

 of latitude sixty-two degrees, moose, caribou, and mountain sheep 

 from August, tw'entieth to December thirty-first, both inclusive; brown 

 bear from October fii-st to July first, both inclusive; deer and moun- 

 tain goats from April first to February first, both inclusive; grouse, 

 ptarmigan, shore birds, and waterfowl from September first to March 

 first, both inclusive: Provided, That, no caribou shall be killed on the 

 Kenai Peninsula before August twentieth, nineteen hundred and 

 twelve: And provided further^ That the Secretary of Agriculture is 

 hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it necessary for the preser- 

 vation of game animals or birds, to make and publish rules and regu- 

 lations prohibiting the sale of any game in any locality modifying 

 the close seasons hereinbefore established, providing different close 

 seasons for different parts of Alaska, placing further restrictions and 

 limitations on the killing of such animals or birds in any given local- 

 ity, or prohibiting killing entirely for a period not exceeding two 

 years in such locality. 



Act May 11, 1908, c. 162, s. 2, 35 Stat. 102. 



The killing of grouse, ptarmigan, shore birds, and waterfowl from 

 September 1 to March 1. ;\nywhere in Alaska, is made lawful by act 

 .ALarch 4, 1911. c. 280. set forth below. 



Killing restricted and limited in number and kinds of certain animals and 

 birds; hunting with dogs, large guns, and launches, etc., unlawful. 



" Sec. 3. Number. — That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill 

 any female or yearling moose or for any one person to kill in any one 

 3'ear more than the number specified of each of the following animals: 

 Tavo moose, one walrus or sea lion, three caribou, three mountain 

 sheep, three brown bear, or to kill or to have in his possession in any 

 one day more than twenty-five gi'ouse or ptarmigan or twenty-five 

 shore birds or waterfowl. 



" Guns and boats. — That it shall be unlawful for any person at any 

 time to hunt with dogs any of the game animals specified in this Act: 

 to use a shotgun larger than number ten gauge, or any gun other than 



