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nests and eggs, for scientific purposes, as provided for in Sec- 

 tion 4 of this act. 



Sec. 4. Certificates may be granted by the superintendent 

 of pubHc instruction to any properly accredited person of the 

 age of fifteen years or upwards, permitting the holder thereof 

 to collect birds, their nests or eggs, for strictly scientific pur- 

 poses only. No such certificate shall be issued until the appli- 

 cant therefor shall have filed with the' said superintendent of 

 public instruction written testimonials from two well known 

 scientific nien or educators; certifying to the good character and 

 fitness of said applicant to be entrusted with such privilege. 

 Said applicant must file with said persons or officers a properly 

 executed bond, in the sum of two hundred dollars, signed by 

 two responsible citizens of the state as sureties. This bond shall 

 be forfeited to the state, and the certificate become void, upon 

 proof that the holder of such certificate has killed any birds or 

 taken the nest or eggs of any bird, for other than the purposes 

 named in Sections 3 and 4 of this act, and shall be further sub- 

 ject for each offense to the penalties provided therefor in Sec- 

 tions I and 2 of this act. 



Sec. 5. The certificate authorized by this act shall be in 

 force for one year only from the date of their issue, and shall 

 not be transferable. 



Sec. 6. The English or European House Sparrow (Passer 

 domesticus) and Mjagpies are not included among the birds 

 protected by this act. 



OPEN SEASON EOR GAME BIRDS. 



No person shall kill, net or trap within this state, except as 

 hereinafter provided, any snipe, green shank, tatler, godwit, 

 curlew, avocet, or other wader or plover, nor quail, lark, whip- 

 poorwill, finch, thrush, snowbird, turkey buzzard, robin or other 

 insectivorous birds, except that partridges, pheasant, prairie 

 chicken, prairie hen or grouse may be shot from August fif- 

 teenth to December first of each year, and sage chickens may be 

 shot from July fifteenth to October fifteenth of each year ; and 



