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477 



Ottawa makes it difficult to establish the fact of the illegal killing. Would 

 it not be well to .have a convention of sportsmen agree on close seasons that 

 would answer for all the provinces, and press the adoption of them in their 

 respective Legislatures ? Of course there are difficulties in the way, but these 

 could easily be got over if sportsmen would only approach them in a candid 

 and conciliatory spirit. 



PRINCE EDWAKD ISLAND. 



The game-laws of Prince Edward Island prohibit the killing of partridges 

 between the 1st of March and the 1st of October, and salmon in the fall. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. 



There is only one game-law in this island, entitled "An act for the Protec- 

 tion and Breeding of Wild-fowl and Game. " It prohibits the killing, taking, 

 purchasing, selling, or possessing of partridges from the 20th of February to 

 the 25th of August, and applies a similar prohibition in the case of snipe, or' 

 any other wUd or migratory birds frequenting for the "purpose of incubation 

 (except wild geese), from the 1st of April to the 20th of August. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



It is unlawful to buy, or sell, or exhibit for sale, any deer or elk between the 

 1st of March and the 1st of August ; or any grouse, prairie-fowl, or partridge, 

 or to destroy or collect their eggs, between' the 1st of March and the 10th of 

 August. Fine $50, or three months' imprisonment. 



