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JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



and several black ducks were observed. 

 Many others, will, no doubt, follow and 

 everything seems to point to an early 

 season. 



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 In March occurred the marriage 

 of one of our active members, Mr. Guy 

 H. Briggs to Miss Edna Belle Morse 

 of Livermore. Our heartiest con- 

 gratulations are extended and best 

 wishes for their future happiness. 

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Our summer meeting seems to be 

 occupying the minds of many of our 

 members at present. Skowhegan will 

 be a fine locality for these two socie- 

 ties to hold this meeting in, and we 

 believe that the success of this joint 

 meet is already assured. We can con- 

 ceive of no better way to spend a week 

 of one's summer vacation, than to at- 

 tend this meeting in so pleasant a lo- 

 cality as Skowhegan. Botany and Or- 

 nithology may well go hand in hand in 

 to the field for study and research. One 

 cannot have an interest in one with- 

 out being more or less interested in 

 the other. To study the birds in their 

 natural element involves, naturally, 

 the study of botany as well. Then 

 too, the birds are very important fact- 

 ors in the distribution of plant life. If 

 the pursuit of field study along either 

 of these lines brings such exquisite 

 pleasure to the student, then must the 

 pleasure be greatly enhanced by the 

 addition of the other. We believe 

 there are no two studies which go so 

 well together as the study of the flora 

 and the fauna of our state. We trust 

 that this meeting will be a success 

 and mutually pleasant and profitable 

 to the members of both societies. 

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 At the last session of Legislature 

 our game laws were amended as fol: 

 lows : 



Chapter 229. 



An act to amend Section eleven of 

 Chapter thirty of the Revised Sta- 

 tutes as amended by Chapter forty- 

 two of the Public Laws of eighteen 

 hundred ninety-nine and as amend- 

 ed by Chapter two hundred fifty- 

 eight of the Public Laws of nineteen 

 hundred one, relating to Close Time 

 for Game Birds. 



Section 1. Section eleven of chapter 

 thirty of the revised statutes, as 

 amended by chapter forty-two of the 

 public laws of eighteen hundred nine- 

 ty-nine, and as amended by chapter 

 two hundred fifty-eight of the public 

 laws of nineteen hundred one, is here- 

 by amended so as to read as follows: 



Section 11. There shall be for game 

 birds an annual close time in which it 

 shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, 

 kill or have them in possession when 

 ever or however killed, as follows: For 

 wood duck, dusky duck, commonly 

 called black duck, teal and gray 

 duck the close time shall be from 

 March fifteenth to September fifteenth 

 of each year; for ruffed grouse, com- 

 monly called partridge and woodcock, 

 from the first day of December to 

 September fifteenth next following of 

 each year; for plover, snipe and sand- 

 pipers, from the first day of May to 

 the first day of August of each year; 

 and it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, 

 catch, kill or have in possession at 

 any time any quail. Whoever violates 

 any of the above named provisions of 

 this section shall be subject to a pen- 

 alty of not less than five dollars nor 

 more than ten dollars and costs for 

 each bird killed .caught, chased or had 

 in possession in close time. 



'No person shall, in any one day kill 

 or have in possession more than fifteen 

 of each variety of the above named 

 birds, except sandpipers, the number 

 of which shall not exceed seventy in 



