116 GAME LAWS OY CANADA. 



in which it is allowed by law to kill game, is a subject 

 which has fortunately been noticed and reported upon 

 by the Natural History Society of Montreal within the 

 last few months ; so that it is probable that, as far as 

 regards some of the most important game-birds, there 

 may ere long be a uniform law for the whole country, 

 and one more in accordance with their habits. 



The above-mentioned Society's Keport justly remarks 

 that there is not so great a diversity of climate between 

 East and West Canada as to require separate legislation, 

 and that the temperature differs less probably than that 

 of different parts of Great Britain, e.g., Devonshire and 

 Sutherland, for which there is but one law ; yet in some 

 cases game may be killed in Upper Canada, twenty miles 

 eastward of the boundary of Lower Canada, twenty days 

 earlier than in the latter province. In other words, the 

 eastern boundary of the Western Province overlaps the 

 western boundary of the Eastern ; therefore a bird which 

 flies across from the one to the other after the 1st of 

 August loses all claim to protection, though by remaining 

 where it was it would have been safe for three weeks longer. 



A uniformity of seasons and dates is the more 

 necessary in a country where the game is not preserved 

 for the exclusive right of any one, and where even the 

 law of trespass is ill-defined as regards marshes, in which 

 a great part of the game is to be found. 



