GAME LAWS. 3^ 



Rail and reed birds: Cecil, September 5 to February 1 ; Harford, Sep- 

 tember 1 to February 1 ; Talbot, September 10 to January 1 Squirrels, 

 <9unty laws: Carroll, September Ito December 24 ; Wicomico, Septem- 

 by- 1 to February 15. Plovers and sandpipers, county laws: Wicomico, 

 N(Vemlrer 1 to January 1. Wood and Summer ducks, county laws: Tal- 

 bot 'jnd Wicomico, September 10 to January 1. Minks, otters and musk- 

 rats, Wicomico County, December 15 to March 15. Deer, October 1 to 

 Januajy 1. Hounding prohibited. Speckled brook trout and speckled 

 river trout, April 1 to August 15. Hook and line fishing only allowed. 

 Sunday ^shing for trout prohibited. Use of swivel or big guns, and 

 night shooting, prohibited. License necessary in Caroline, Charles, Dor- 

 chester, Howard, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. In all above 

 counties except Caroline written permission from landowi^er is required 

 in lieu of license and in Garrett County is absolutely necessary. Ex- 

 portation of game is forbidden from Montgomery, Worcester, Wicomico 

 and Caroline counties. Many insectivorous birds are protected in Mont- 

 gomery County. 



MASSACHUSETTS.-Deer protected. Gray squirrels, hares and rab- 

 bits, September 1 to March 1. Ruffed grouse or partridges and woodcocks, 

 September 15 to January 1. Quails, October 15 to January 1. Prairie 

 chickens or pinnated gropae protected. Ducks, all kinds, September 1 

 to April 15. Plovers, snipes, rails, sandpipers and other shore, marsh 

 'and beach birds, July 15 to May I. Wild and passenger pigeons, gulls 

 and terns. October 1 to May 1. Shooting at wildfowl and shore birds 

 prohibited in the harbor and great ponds of Nantucket and the waters in 

 and around the islands of Tuckernuck, Muskeget and the Gravelly Isl- 

 ands. All wild, and insectivorous birds not named above, except English 

 sparrows, crow blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey and wild geese, pro- 

 tected. Snaring, trapping, use of ferrets, battery, swivel or pivot guns, 

 and torch or other artificial light prohibited. Black bass, July 1 to 

 December 1. Trout, lake trout and land-locked salmon, April 1 to Sep- 

 tember 1 ; trout, in Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin counties, April 1 

 to August 1. Hampden, April 1 to September 1. Salmon, May 1 to 

 August 1. Smelts, June 1 to March 15. Black bass arejiot to be taken from 

 Lake Cochituate, in the towns of Natick, Wayland and Framingham, 

 Middlesex County. Trout and pickerel may be taken by line and hook 

 only. Nets or seines with meshes less than five inches prohibited on the 

 Connecticut River and its tributaries. Trespass, Sunday shooting and 

 fishing, the pollution of streams, use of nets, seines, and exportation of 

 game birds or animals, prohibited . 



MICHIGAN.— Deer in Upper Peninsula, September 25 to October 25; 

 Lower Peninsula, November 5 to November 25. Killing deer or fawns 

 in red or spotted coat, and in the water, or by means of pitfall or trap or 

 artificial light, forbidden. Hounding prohibited, and dogs found on a 



