40 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OP BIRDS. 



Regulations and permits for collecting birds, nests, and eggs for scientific purposes — Con. 



* Law not applicable to specimens collected for scientific purposes. 



t Law not applicable to specimens of plume birds collected for scientific purposes. 



X Law not applicable to specimens collected by curator, assistants, or agents of Provincial Museum. 



LICENSES AND OTHER REGULATIONS REGARDING SHOOTING. 



General regulations regarding shooting belong more properly to a 

 treatise on game laws, but since in some States they are made to. cover 

 all birds, they may be considered very briefly in this connection. 

 Their primary object, of course, is game preservation whether by 

 restricting hunting, limiting the number of birds which may be killed 

 in a day or a season or the purposes for which they may be killed, or 

 establishing special close seasons. The system of gun licenses which 

 is strongly advocated by the League of American Sportsmen, and 

 which has been adopted recently in Wyoming for big game, does not 

 seem to have been applied thus far to birds in general. Hunting 



