60 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Division B, Sec 7. (4) The open season for * * * cranes and water fowls shall 

 begin September 1 and end April 15 next ensuing, except in altitudes exceeding 7,000 

 feet above sea level, where the open season shall begin September 15. 



(5) The open season for wild pigeons and doves shall begin July 15 and end 

 September 30 next ensuing. 



Division G, Sec 4. [Every person or officer violating any of the provisions of this 

 act shall be punished by a fine of $10 to $500, or by imprisonment from ten days to 

 six months, or by both fine and imprisonment.] 



Approved April 27, 1899. 



CONNECTICUT. 



General Statutes, 1888, Title XLI, Chap. CLII, p. 558. 



Sec. 2542. Every person who shall shoot, snare, or kill any eagle shall be fined not 

 less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty 

 days. (Stat. 1883, chap. 67.) 



Public Acts of 1897, Chap. XXIII, p. 756. 



Sec. 1 {amending section 2535 and repealing section 2536 General Statutes, 1888]. 

 Every person who shall kill, cage, or trap, or have in his possession, dead or alive, 

 any bluebird, Baltimore oriole, purple finch, thrush of any kind, cat-bird, wren, 

 martin, swallow, chimney swift, bobolink, robin, night-hawk, whip-poor-will, fly- 

 catcher, warbler,- scarlet tanager, vireo, nuthatch, creeper, humming bird, rose- 

 breasted grosbeak, kinglet, titmouse, indigo bird, cedar bird, yellow bird, phebe, 

 sparrow (except English sparrows) , or any species of the woodpecker, chickadee, or 

 any other of the song or insectivorous birds, or who shall destroy the nests or eggs 

 of any of said birds, shall be fined one dollar for each bird so killed, caged, trapped, or 

 had in possession, or nest or egg destroyed. 



Approved March 15, 1897. 



Public Acts of 1899, chap. 62, p. 1017. 



Sec. 1. The president of the board of commissioners of fisheries and game shall 

 have authority to issue to suitable persons licenses to take and kill birds which may 

 be otherwise protected by law, except game birds, and the nests and eggs of such 

 birds, for scientific purposes only. 



Sec. 2. [Applicant must present certificate signed by an officer of the Hartford 

 Scientific Society showing that said applicant is a proper person to be intrusted with 

 a license, and must file with the commissioners a bond in the sum of two hundred 

 dollars. ] 



Sec 3. [Licenses shall be issued for one year, and upon such conditions as commis- 

 sioners may prescribe.] 



Sec. 4. [Applicants shall pay fee of one dollar for license.] 



Approved April 19, 1899. 



DELAWARE. 



Revised Statutes, 1893, Chap. LV,p.457 (Laws of Del. , Vol. 17,chap. 507). 



Sec 1. [Permits killing of reedbirds between September 1 and February 1.] 

 Sec 6. That it shall be unlawful for any person within this State at any time to 

 take, kill or destroy (upon lands not owned by himself) any of the following birds, 

 viz: Bobin, bluebird, martin, swallow, mockingbird, thrush, wakeup, woodpecker, 



