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June 15 to April 15, Pickepel (;dore), May 15 to April 15. Use of nets, 

 explosives, spears or grapple hooks prohibited. 



MANITOBA. -Ail kinds of deer, including cabri or antelopes, elks or 

 wapiti, moose, reindeer and caribous, or their fawns, October 1 to De- 

 cember 1. Grouse, partridges, prairie chickens and pheasants, Septem- 

 ber 1 to December 1. Woodcocks, plovers (except golden plovers), snipes 

 and sandpipers, August 1 to January 1. Any kind of wild duck, sea duck, 

 widgeon, teal, wild swan, or wild goose, except the variety of wild goose 

 commonly known as "the wavey'' or "snow goose," September 1 to May 

 1. Nests and eggs of game birds protected. Otters, fishers, pekans, 

 beavers, muski-ats and sables, October 1 to May 15. Martens, November 

 1 to April 15. Trapping and netting, excepting of otters, fishers, beavers 

 muskrats, martens and pekans, prohibited. Poisons, batteries, swivel 

 guns, sunken punts and night lights and spring guns prohibited. Expor- 

 tation of game birds and animals, without a permit, prohibited. Hunt- 

 ing on lands without permission of ownerforbidden. Insectivorous birds, 

 nests and egg protected. Sunday shootinsf prohibited. Transportation 

 of game forbidden during the close season. Non-residents proliibited 

 from shooting unless provided with a license (costing $25). Pickerel 

 idoro). May 15 to April 16. Speckled trout, January 1 to October 1. 

 Explosives and poisons prohibited. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA.— Deer, elks, reindeer, caribou, mountain goats, 

 mountain sheep and hares, August 15 to December 20. , Cow elks pro- 

 tected at all times. Grouse, partridges, prairie fowl, California' and Vir- 

 ginia quails, robins and meadow larks, September 1 to Febiruary 1. 

 Wild ducks, September 1 to March 1. Cock pheasants, October 1 to Feb- 

 ruary 1. Hen pheasants protected at all times. Night hunting prohib- 

 ited. Houndiltg deer prohibited except east of the Cascades. Cock 

 pheasant.^ and (juails are protected on the mainland until September 1, 

 1894 ; may be shot as above stated on Vancouver Island. Insectivorous 

 birds and their nests protected. Gulls protected in the harbors and 

 tributary streams of Victoria, E-!(iuimault, New Westminster, Nauaimo 

 or Vancouver. Skin hunting and exporting prohibited. The sale of any 

 pheasant, fawn or deer under the age of twelve months, and does of any 

 age, prohibited. A non-resident must procure a license to shoot game 

 animals. Trout, March 15 to October 16. ' Nets, weirs, seines, or similar 

 devices, explosives, drugs and poisons prohibited « 



NEW BRUNSWICK.— Moose (bull), deer and caribou, September 1 to 

 January 15. Cow moose are protected absolutely. Partridges or ruffed 

 grouse, September 20 to December 1. Snipes, September 15 to March 1. 

 Woodcocks and teal ducks, September 1 to Deaembur 1. Geese, ducks 

 and brants, September 1 to May 1. Hire3 anl rabbits, September 1 to 

 •March 1. Mink, otter, fisher, sable and beaver, September 1 to May 1. 

 Night hunting by artificial lighV and use of swivel or punt gun prohibit- 

 ed. Non-residents prohibited to hunt without a license. Hounding 

 moose, caribou and deer prohibited. Bunduy shooting and ©xportatipu 



