﻿38 BULLETIN 22, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



killed or shipped in violation of the laws of the State, Territory, or District in which 

 the same were killed, or from which they were shipped: Provided, That nothing 

 herein shall prevent the transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during the 

 season when the same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not pro- 

 hibited by law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or 

 killed: Provided further, That nothing herein shall prevent the importation, transpor- 

 tation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from the feathers of barnyard 

 fowls. 



Sec. 243. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts thereof, 

 of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in interstate or foreign 

 commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the name and address of the 

 shipper, and the nature of the contents, may be readily ascertained on an inspection 

 of the outside of such package. 



Sec. 244. For each evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections last 

 preceding, the shipper shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars; the consignee 

 knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of said 

 sections shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars; and the carrier knowingly 

 carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined not more 

 than two hundred dollars. 



STATE LAWS PROHIBITING EXPORT. 



Since the constitutionality of the Connecticut statute prohibiting 

 export of certain game was established by the supreme court in 1896/ 

 nonexport laws have been generally adopted, and at the present time 

 every State prohibits the export of certain kinds of game. In most 

 States sportsmen are allowed to carry a limited amount of game out 

 of the State under special restrictions, and exceptions to the laws 

 prohibiting export are also made in the case of birds and animals 

 intended for propagation or reared in licensed preserves. 



Restrictions on shipment from the State have now become so 

 stringent that all the States west of the Mississippi River, prohibit 

 export of all game protected by local laws. East of the Mississippi, 

 laws prohibiting the export of all game, or, in some cases, all but 

 one or two unimportant species, are in force in all the States except 

 Kentucky and a small group along the coast from Massachusetts to 

 North Carolina. 



Special attention is called to the following table, which contains a 

 list of the game prohibited from export by each State: 



Export of game prohibited. 

 Alabama: All protected game. 



Exceptions: Nonresident licensee may take with, him or have carried to him, openly, game lawfully 



killed by him. State game and fish commissioner may issue $1 permit to any person to capture, kill, 



or export not more than 10 pairs of any one species of game or birds for scientific or propagating 



purposes. 



Alaska: Deer, moose, caribou, sheep, goat, bear, or hides of these animals; wild birds, except eagles, or 



any parts thereof. 



Exceptions: Specimens may be exported under restrictions imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 and trophias of big game under licenses issued by the governor. 2 

 Arizona: All protected game. 



Exceptions: Deer or wild turkey may be exported under a $2 permit. 



« Geer v. Conn., 161 U. S., 519. 



2 See p. 54 and also circulars of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



