4 INTRODUCTION 



$io to $40 for non-residents and a smaller license usu- 

 ally for residents. Two States prohibited the shoot- 

 ing by non-residents within their borders. In addition 

 to these laws, now in force almost everywhere in the 

 Northern States, there are many others of less impor- 

 tance, or of a local nature, such as the law in New Jer- 

 sey, for example, which prohibits all shooting when 

 there is a " tracking snow " on the ground. In many 

 of the States thfc season for all game closes by the first 

 of the year and opens in October or November. 



These laws were supplemented by a national law 

 {known from its author as the Lacey law) which pro- 

 hibits the shipment of game by interstate commerce 

 wherever its sale or transportation is prohibited by 

 State law. 



Since the passage of the laws prohibiting the sale of 

 game in most of the Northern States, game birds are 

 no longer exposed openly in the markets where such 

 sales are illegal, but the laws have been evaded in 

 many ways. Vast quantities of game are handled 

 each season by the cold-storage warehouses. Mr. 

 Starbuck, President of the Cuvier Club, one of the 

 strongest game-protective clubs in the United States, 

 referred in a recent address to the seizure in 1891 of 

 7.931 grouse, 5,571 partridges or quail, 96 woodcock, 

 1,324 ducks, 8,848 plover, 7,108 snipe, 8,328 snow-bunt- 

 ings, 7,607 sand-pipers, 1,008 reed birds, and 738 yel- 

 low-legs, at a cold-storage warehouse in New York, 

 the penalties amounting to $1,168,315. The agents 

 of the Government last fall made a seizure of five 

 thousand partridges at a small station in the Chick- 

 asaw Nation. President Starbuck says: "Wagon- 



