58- LEGISLATION FOB THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



or other company or corporation or private person, their agents, employees or ser- 

 vants, to have in possession or receive for transportation or carriage, or for any other 

 purpose whatever, any such birds or eggs; but this section shall not apply to English 

 sparrows, crows, black birds, hawks, owls, eagles, and other birds of prey, nor shall 

 it prohibit any person from killing any such birds on his own premises, when in the 

 act of destroying fruit or other crops. 



Approved March 15, 1897. 



[This act amends section 3433 of the game law in Sandels & Hill's Digest, 1894, 

 p. 847. The only game birds mentioned in that law are the wild turkey, pinnated 

 grouse or prairie chicken and quail or Virginia partridge. The penalties for viola- 

 tions of this law are found in section 3436 of the Digest, which reads as follows:] 



' ' Sec. 3436. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not 

 less than three, nor more than ten dollars for each bird killed, caught or injured, or 

 had in possession * * * and not less than three dollars nor more than ten for 

 each nest of eggs destroyed as aforesaid, together with the costs of prosecution." 



Act February 23, 1885. 



CALIFORNIA. 

 Penal Code, 1897, pp. 216,218. 



Sec. 626. * * * Every person who shall take, gather, or destroy the eggs or 

 nests of any * * * dove, robin, or any kind of wild duck, or rail; every person 

 who, in the State of California, shall at any time hunt, shoot, shoot at, take, kill, 

 or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or have in his possession, except for the purpose of 

 propagation, or for educational or scientific purposes, any English skylark, robin, 

 canary, humming-bird, thrush, or mocking-bird, or any part of the skin, skins, or 

 plumage thereof, or who shall rob the nests or take or destroy, or offer for sale, the 

 eggs of any of the said birds * * * is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided,' how- 

 ever, that the right of possession for the purpose of propagation shall first be obtained 

 by a permit in writing from the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of Cali- 

 fornia. Any person found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this 

 section, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars or more than five 

 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail in the county in which the 

 conviction shall be had, not less than ten days or more than one hundred and fifty 

 days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. [Killing of doves 

 permitted between July 15 and February 15.] 



Sec. 627. [Prohibits transportation of doves, beyond limits of State, except for 

 purposes of propagation, under penalty of a fine of $20-$ 500 or imprisonment 10-150 

 days, or both fine and imprisonment.] 



Amendment approved March 9, 1897. 



Penal Code, 1897, Appendix, p. 562. 



BLUE CRANES. 



Sec. 1. Any person or persons who shall willfully and knowingly shoot, wound, 

 trap, snare, or in any other manner catch or capture any blue crane in the State of 

 California, or shall knowingly take, injure, or destroy the nest of any white or blue 

 crane, or shall take, injure, or destroy any blue crane's eggs, in the nest or otherwise, 

 in said state, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 before any justice of the peace of the township in which the offense shall have been 

 committed, shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor exceeding one 



