SPECIES PEOTECTED. 



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under different States is yet far from uniform, still this plan has the 

 advantage of bringing related birds together; certain species, like 

 birds of prey, woodpeckers, and whippoorwills, if mentioned at all in 

 the law, will usually be found near the beginning of each of the lists 

 here given, while certain others, such as thrushes, robins, and blue- 

 birds, will be found at the end. 



Local names have been carefully preserved, so that the same bird 

 often appears under several designations, as ' wake-up ' or ' yellow 

 hammer' for tiicker, and 'chewink,' 'joree,' 'joewink,' or 'ground 

 robin' for towhee. The penalties fixed bylaw for killing birds or 

 destroying nests or eggs show nearly as much diversity as the lists of 

 species. Some States impose the same penalty for both offenses, others 

 have none for the destruction of eggs, while still others impose heavier 

 penalties for destruction of eggs than for the killing of birds, and 

 protect more species. With one or two exceptions, the fines vary 

 from |1 to llOO, but are usually less than |25. In Florida a violation 

 of the plume-bird law is punishable by a fine not exceeding $300, or 

 imprisonment not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the court. 



List of species* protected in each State and in iJie (JaiKidiau I'rurinces, tviih penalties for 

 killing the birds and destroyliuj nests and eggs. 



State or Territory. 



Species protected. 



Penalties. 



Birds. 



Eggs. 



Alabama 



Tilcui), kildee, turtle dove, cuckoo, rain crow, hairy 

 woodpecker, downy woodpecker, i)ileated wood- 

 pecker, red-headed woodpecker, red-bellied wood- 

 pecker, whippoorwill, nighthawk, swift, hum- 

 mingbird, phcebe bird, pewee, shore lark, cow- 

 bird, .starling or bunting, meadowlark, fleldlark, 

 oriole, grackle, finch, linnet, sparrow, American 

 .sparrow, hair bird, snowbird, chewink, redbird, 

 grosbeak, indigo bird, blue flnch, joree, tanager, 

 martin, swallow, shrike, vireo, warbler, yellow- 

 bird, chat, redstart, mockingbird, catbird, wren, 

 nuthatch, titmouse, chickadee, gnatcatcher, 

 thrush, robin, bluebird, or any bird of song. 



Not less 

 than m. 



MLsde- 

 mcanor. 



13 to 110 



$20 to 1500 



150 to 1100 

 SIO to 1300 



Not less 





than .150. 



Arkansas 



Culiforuia..- 



All wild birds (other than game birds, English spar- 

 row, hawks, eagles, owls, and other birds of prey, 

 crow, blackbirds) . 



Hummingbird, English skylark, canary, mocking- 

 bird, thrush, robin. 



meanor. 



m to 810 



$20 to $500 



Colorado 



Turkey buzzard, whippoorwill, kingbird, raven, 

 crow, bobolink, red-winged blackbird, lark, oriole, 

 finch, sparrow, snowbird, song sparrow, martin, 

 swallow, mockingbird, wren, thrush, robin, other 

 insectivorous birds. 









* For convenience in reference, the species have been arranged in a uniform order, according to the 

 Check List of the American Ornithologists' Union, but the common names have been strictly followed 

 in all cases. 



