﻿48 BULLETIN 22, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



constitute one of the most effective features of modern game legisla- 

 tion. They have been tested in the courts and upheld by the supreme 

 courts of several States, notably those of Maine and Wisconsin. 1 



When restrictions on limits are extended to possession and ship- 

 ment as well as killing, and the total amount of game allowed a party 

 made less than the quantity allowed the individual members of the 

 party, little difficulty is experienced in enforcing the statute. More- 

 over, among law-abiding sportsmen the incentive to make large bags 

 is removed when the act is declared illegal. 



In recent years bag limits have been materially reduced, and only 

 a few States now allow more than 2 deer a season or 1 head of other 

 big game, while the usual limits per day in the case of birds are 10 

 grouse or woodcock, 15 quail, and 25 waterfowl. In Canada, where 

 the country is not so closely settled, bag limits on most game are 

 fewer and more liberal than in the United States. 



Limits fixed by law for the capture of game. 



Alabama: One deer, 2 turkey gobblers, 25 of each other kind of birds a day. 



Alaska: Six deer, 2 moose, 3 caribou, 3 sheep, and 3 brown bears a season; 25 grouse, ptarmigan, shore 

 birds or waterfowl a day. 



Arizona: Two deer, 3 turkeys a season, 25 each of quail or ducks, 35 doves or white wings a day. 



Arkansas: No limits, except in the following counties: Deer, Bradley 3, Dallas 3, Desha 4, Phillips 4 (or 

 1 for each member of party), Chicot 5, a season; quail, Bradley and Dallas 300 a season or 25 a day for 

 each member of party. Monroe, 3 deer, 2 bears, 100 quail, 5 wild turkeys, and 100 ducks a season; party 

 limits, 1 deer, 1 bear, 10 quail, 1 wild turkey, 15 ducks for each member. 



California: Two deer, 12 tree squirrels a season; 15 cotton-tail or bush rabbits, 4 grouse, 4 sage hens, 

 10 mountain quail, 20 each of desert or valley quail, doves, plover, curlew, snipe, or other shore birds, 

 and ibises, and 25 ducks and black sea brant a day; 50 ducks or black sea brant per week. 



Colorado: Twenty game birds a day, 30 in possession at one time. Persons under 12 years of age limited 

 to half this number of birds. 



Connecticut: Five each of quail and ruffed grouse a day, 36 a year; 35 rail, 50 each of plover, snipe, shore 

 birds a day. 



Delaware: Six animals, 50 rail, 20 ducks, 12 other birds or fowl, except plover, snipe and reedbirds, a day. 



District of Columbia: No limits. 



Florida: Three deer, 5 turkeys, and 500 other game birds a year; 1 deer, 2 turkeys, 20 quail, and 25 

 each of other species a day. 



Georgia: Three deer, 3 turkeys a season; 40 doves or snipe, and 25 each of any other species of game 

 birds a day. 



Idaho: Two deer, 1 elk, 1 ibex, 1 goat, 1 sheep a season; 18 quail, 12 each of partridges, sage hens, grouse 

 pheasants, 24 doves, plover, snipe, ducks, 4 geese, 1 swan a day; but not more than 24 of all kinds in pos- 

 session at one time. 



Illinois: Fifteen squirrels, 12 quail, 3 prairie chickens, 15 doves, 15 shore birds, 15 coots, 15 rail, 15 

 ducks, 10 geese, 10 brant, 15 other waterfowl a day. 



Indiana: Fifteen quail, 15 ducks or other waterfowl a day; 45 birds in possession as result of 3 or more 

 days' consecutive hunting. 



Iowa: Twenty-five each of all animals, birds, and game a day; 50 ducks in possession at one time. 



Kansas: Twenty each of dove, plover, duck, 12 snipe and 6 each of geese and brant a day. 



Kentucky: No limits. 



Louisiana: Two deer a day or in possession at one time, 5 a season; 10 squirrels, 1 turkey gobbler, 25 

 doves, ducks, poule d'eau, or chorooks, 50 snipe, 15 of any other game birds a day. Market hunters, 

 50 ducks or poule d'eau a day. 



Maine: One moose, 2 deer a season (except in Androscoggin, Cumberland, Knox, Kennebec, Lincoln; 

 Sagadahoc, Waldo, and York Counties, limit 1, and in lumber camps, limit 6); 5 each of ruffed grouse 

 and plover, and 10 each of woodcock, snipe, and ducks, and 50 sandpipers a day. 



Maryland: One deer a season; 12 rabbits, 12 squirrels, 15 quail (partridges), 6 ruffed grouse (pheasants), 

 3 English pheasants, 2 wild turkeys, 25 doves, 12 woodcock, 12 jacksnipe a day; 50 rail (ortolan) per tide. 

 Exceptions. — Baltimore, per day: 6 rabbits, 1 jack rabbit, 8 squirrels, 10 quail (partridges), 2 ruffed 

 grouse (pheasants), 1 English pheasant, 1 ring-neck pheasant, 1 wild turkey, 10 doves, 8 woodcock, 12 

 jacksnipe; per tide: 28 rail. Calvert, per day: 6 rabbits, 12 partridges. Cecil, per day: 5 rabbits, 6 

 squirrels, 12 quail (partridges), 4 ruffed grouse (pheasants), 12 woodcock, 15 snipe, 50 rail, 50 black- 

 birds, 20 Bartramian sandpipers (grass plover), 20 marsh plover, and 25 each of teal, wood, mallard, 

 black, sprigtail, and crow-bill ducks. Patuxent River, per day: 75 rail (ortolan), 75 reedbirds. 



1 See Allen v. Leighton, 32 Atl., 877 (Maine, 1895); State v. Nergaard, 102 N. W., 899 (Wisconsin, 1905). 



