58 LEGISLATION FOK THE PEOTECTION OF BIEDS. 



or other company or corporation or private person, their agents, employees or ser- 

 vants, to have in possession or receive for transportation or carriage, or for any other 

 purpose whatever, any such birds or eggs; but this section shall not apply to English 

 sparrows, crows, black birds, hawks, owls, eagles, and other birds of prey, nor shall 

 it prohibit any person from killing any such birds on his own premises, when in the 

 act of destroying fruit or other crops. 



Approved March 15, 1897. 



[This act amends section 3433 of the game law in Sandels & Hill's Digest, 1894, 

 p. 847. The only game birds mentioned in that law are the wild turkey, pinnated 

 grouse or i^rairie chicken and quail or Virginia partridge. The penalties for viola- 

 tions of this law are found in section 3436 of the Digest, which reads as follows:] 



"Sec. 3436. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed 

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

 less than three, nor more than ten dollars for each bird killed, caught or injured, or 

 ha<l in possession * * * and not less than three dollars nor more than ten for 

 each nest of eggs de.str<n'ed as aforesaid, together with the costs of prosecution." 



A(;t February 23, 1885. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Penal Code, 1897, pp. 216,218. 



Sec. 626. * * * Every person who shall take, gather, or destroy the eggs or 

 nests of any * * * dove, robin, or any kind of wild duck, or rail; every i)erson 

 who, in the State of California, sliall at any time hunt, shoot, shoot at, take, kill, 

 or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or have in his possession, except for the purpose of 

 })r(»pa<j:ation, or for educHticjnal or stnentific purpo.ses, any English skylark, robin, 

 (umary, humming-bird, thrash, or mocking-bird, or any i)art of the skin, skins, or 

 plumage thereof, or who shall rf>b the nests or take or destroy, or offer for sale, the 

 e«gs of any of the said birds * * * is guilty of a misdemeanor; jtrovided, how- 

 ever, that the right of j>osses.«ion for the jmrposeof ])ropagatioii shall first beobtaiut'd 

 by a permit in writing from the Board of Fish Commissioners of the State of Cali- 

 fornia. Any jierson found guilty of a violation of any of the i)rovisions of this 

 section, shall be lined in a sum not ie-s-^ than twenty dollars or more than live 

 hundred dollars, or l>e imprisoneil in the county jail in the county in which the 

 conviction shall Ix.* ha«l,'not less than ten days or more than one liimdre<l and fifty 

 days, or 1k> punished by both such fme and imprisonment. [Killing of doves 

 jH-rmitted l)etween July 15 and February 15.] 



Skc. 627. [Prohihit.M transportation of doves beyond limits <if State, except for 

 jmrposes of i»ropagation, under i)enalty of a line of $2()-$r)(H) ..r imprisonment 1()-150 

 days, or both line and imprisomnent.] 



Amendment ai.pn.vfd March 9, 1897. 



Penal Code, 1897, Appendix, p. 562. 



lU-lK (KANRS. 



Sec. 1. Any person or persons who shall willfully and knowingly shoot, wound, 

 trajt, snare, or in any other manner catch or cuptme any blue <rane in the State of 

 California, or shall knowingly take, injure, or de.><troy the nest of any white or blue 

 orane, or shall take, injiuv, or destroy any blue crane's eggs, in the nest or otherwise, 

 in said state, shall ]>e dwmed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 before any justitc of the i>eace of the townshij) in which the offense shall have U'en 

 eonnnitted, shall be lined in a sum not less than lifty doUai-s nor exceeding one 



