84 LEGISLATION FOE THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



"WISCONSIN. 



"Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, chap. 62, vol. 1, p. 1112. 



Sec. 1498i. The [fish and game] warden may grant, on satisfactory testimonials of 

 well-known scientists only, a certificate to any member of an incorporated society of 

 natural history or to any professor of any university, school or college, or any person 

 properly accredited by any such institution, authorizing such person or institution to 

 collect, for scientific purposes only, the nests, eggs, animals, birds and fish protected 

 by these statutes. No person to whom such certificate is issued or who acts under 

 the same shall dispose of any such specimens except in exchange for scientific 

 purposes. 



Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, chap. 185, vol. 2, p. 2759. 



Sec. 4563 (as amended by Acts of 1899, chap. 267, sec. 1). [Any person who shall 

 take, catch or kill any wild duck, brant, or any aquatic fowl, excepting wild geese, 

 between January 1 and September 1, shall be punished by a fine of $20 to $50, or 

 by imprisonment of 10 to 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.] 



Sec. 4565 (as amended by Acts of 1899, chap. 311, sec. 10, p. 558). Any person 

 who shall catch or kill at any time, or for any purpose whatever, except as author- 

 ized by law, any whippoorwill, night-hawk, bluebird, finch, thrush, robin, lark, tur- 

 tle dove, or any other harmless bird shall be punished by a fine of not more than 

 fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, 

 provided that this section shall not apply to blackbirds, crows, English sparrows or 

 pigeons for trapshooting. 



Sec. 4565a. 'Any person who shall take or destroy the eggs or nest of any water- 

 fowl or bird, except crows and English sparrows, shall be punished by a fine of not 

 more than five dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ten 

 days. 



Sec. 4566a. An attempt to violate any of the provisions of the * * * preceding 

 sections shall be deemed a violation thereof. 



[Note.— The Index refers to ' Birds not killed for millinery purposes, § 4667a, p. 2761.' No such sec- 

 tion has been found, the one indicated referring to fish.] 



WYOMING. 

 Session Laws of 1899, chap. 19, p. 31. 



Sbc. 12. No person .shall kill, net or trap within this State, except as hereinafter 

 provided, any * * * Lark, Whippoorwill, Finch, Thrush, Snow-bird, Turkey 

 Buzzard, Robin or other insectivorous birds. * * * 



Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed 

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

 less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, together with costs of suit, and shall be 

 prosecuted and punished in the same manner as in other cases of misdemeanor. 



Sec. 13. [Killing of wild swans prohibited at any time under a penalty of $10 to 

 $25 and imprisonment not exceeding 60 days.] 



Approved February 15, 1899. 



