288 BIRD LIFE IN ENGLAND. 



fowl, while the same are sitting at night upon their resting- 

 places. 



5. Any person violating the foregoing provisions of 

 this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall 

 likewise be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence; 

 and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, and police 

 officers to see that these provisions are enforced. 



6. No person shall at any. time within this State, kill 

 or trap, or expose for sale, or have in his possession after the 

 same is killed, any eagle, fish hawk, night hawk, whip-poor- 

 will, finch, sparrow, yellow bird, wren, martin, swallow, 

 tonagar, oriole, bobolink, or any other song bird ; or kill, 

 trap, or expose for sale any robin, brown-thresher, wood- 

 pecker, blackbird, meadow-lark, or starling, save during the 

 months of August, September, October, November, and 

 December ; nor destroy or rob the nests of any wild birds 

 whatever, under a penalty of five dollars for each bird so 

 killed, trapped, or exposed for sale, and for each nest 

 destroyed or robbed. This section shall not apply to any 

 person who shall kill or trap any bird for the purpose of 

 studying its habits or history, or having the same stuffed 

 and set up as a specimen ; nor to any person who shall kill 

 on his own premises any robin during the period when 

 summer fruits or grapes are ripening, providing such robin 

 is killed in the act of destroying such fruits or grapes. 



7. No person shall at any time within ten years of the 

 passage of this Act, kill any pinnated grouse, commonly 

 called prairie-fowl, unless upon grounds owned by them, and 

 grouse placed thereon by said owners, under a penalty of ten 

 dollars for each bird so killed. 



8. No person shall kill, or have in his or her possession, 

 except alive for the purpose of preserving the same alive 

 through the winter, or expose for sale, any woodcock between 

 the 1st of January and the 4th of July, or any quail, 

 sometimes called Virginia partridge, between the 1st of 

 January and the 20th of October, or any ruffed grouse, 



