SPECIES EXEMPTED FROM PKOTECTION. 



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List of species protected in each State and in the Canadian Provinces, etc. — Continued. 





Species protected. 



Penalties. 





Birds. 



Eggs. 



West Virginia 



Dove, turkey buzzard, cuckoo, woodpecker, yellow- 

 hammer or flicker, whippoorwill, hummingbird, 

 phoebe bird or pewee, blue jay, redwing, oriole, 

 blackbird, purple grackle, family Fringillidse or 

 sparrows, finch, crossbill, chewink, redbird or car- 

 dinal grosbeak, indigo bird, martin, swallow, war- 

 bler, redstart, mockingbird, catbird, wren, nut- 

 hatch, titmouse, tit or tomtit, dummock, night- 

 ingale, thrush, robin, Hungarian robin, bluebird, 

 and other birds not predatory or destructive to 



12 to 125 



$2 to $25 





crops. 



Turtle dove, whippoorwill, nighthawk, lark, finch, 

 thrush, robin, bluebird, and other harmless birds. 



Turkey buzzard, whippoorwill, lark, finch, snow- 

 bird, thrush, robin, or other insectivorous birds. 



Gull, bittern, skylark, meadowlark, linnet, chafiinch, 

 English blackbird, thrush, robin, and birds living 

 on noxious insects. 



Any birds (except game birds and certain species 

 considered injurious) . 



Sea gull, small birds which frequent the fields and 

 woods (except English sparrow, crow, and black- 

 bird). 



Wild or migratory birds (January 12 to Auguist 20) . . 



Sparrow, swallow, robin, other small birds, and birds 

 of song which frequent fields and gardens. 



Wild native birds (other than game birds, English 

 sparrow, hawks, crow, and blackbirds) . 



Cuckoo, woodpecker, whippoorwill, hummingbird, 

 birds known as perchers, kingbird, flycatcher, 

 bobolink, cowbird, grackle, finches (song sparrow, 

 redbird, indigo bird, etc.), goldfinch, grosbeak, 

 swallow, warbler, titmouse, kinglet, grive (robin, 

 wood thrush, etc.) . 



*|50 



110 to mo 



tt) 



11 to 120 



S5 



»25 to 1200 



SI 



11 to $20 



|2toS5 



* t Jf5 







British Columbia.. 



(t) 



;;■ L to »20 



New Brunswick . . . 



$5 



Nova Scotia 



11 





$Z to f5 







* Not exceeding. 



t Eggs or nest of any water fowl or other birds, except crows and English sparrows. 



I; Penalties fixed by lieutenant-governor in council. 



SPECIES SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED FROM PROTECTION. 



Twenty-seven States, the District of Columbia, and four Canadian 

 Provinces exempt from protection certain species which are commonly 

 considered injurious. These species include (1) the English sparrow; 



(2) birds which destroy poultry and game, as certain hawks and owls; 



(3) birds which destroj^ grain, as blackbirds, crows, and ricebirds; (4) 

 birds which destroy fish, as loons, fish-eating ducks, herons, and king- 

 fishers. Of these thirty-two^ States and Provinces, twenty-eight 

 specifically mention the English sparrow, and South Dakota and Que- 

 bec virtually include it with other sparrows, thus leaving only two 



* Including the District of Columbia. 



