60 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



Division B, Sec. 7. (4) The open season for * * * cranes and water fowls shall 

 begin September 1 and end April 15 next ensuing, except in altitudes exceeding 7,000 

 feet above sea level, where the open season shall begin September 15. 



(5) The open season for wild pigeons and doves shall begin July 15 and end 

 September 30 next ensuing. 



Division G, Sec. 4. [Every person or officer violating any of the provisions of this 

 act shall be punished by a fine of $10 to $500, or by imprisonment from ten days to 

 six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. ] 



Approved April 27, 1899. 



CONNECTICUT. 



General Statutes, 1888, Title XLI, Chap. CLII, p. 558. 



Sec. 2542. Every person who shall shoot, snare, or kill any eagle shall be fined not 

 less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty 

 days. (Stat. 1883, chap. 67.) 



Public Acts of 1897, Chap. XXIII, p. 756. 



Sec. 1 [amending section 2535 and repealing section 2536 General Statutes, 1888]. 

 Every person who shall kill, cage, or trap, or have in his possession, dead or alive, 

 any bluebird, Baltimore oriole, purple finch, thrusli of any kind, cat-bird, wren, 

 martin, swallow, chinmey swift, Ixiljolink, robin, night-hawk, whii)-poor-will, fiy- 

 catcher, warbler, scarlet tanager, vireo, nuthatch, creeper, humming bin!, rose- 

 brea.sted groslx'ak, kinglet, titmou.se, indigo bird, cedar bird, yellow bird, phebe, 

 sparrow (except English sparrows), or any species of the woodpecker, chickadee, or 

 any other of the song or iiisi-ctivorous liirds, or who shall destroy the nests or eggs 

 of any ni sai<l birds, shall he fined one dollar for i-ach hinl so kiili-«l, <age<l, trapped, or 

 had in possession, or uvst or egg deHtroyed. 



Ai.]>roV(Ml Man-h 15, 1897. 



Public Acts of 1899, chap. 62, p. 1017. 



Sec. 1. The jiresident of the board of commissioners of fisheries and game shall 

 have authority to is.wne to suitable jtersons licenses to take and kill birds which may 

 be otherwise ]>rotected by law, exivpt game birds, and the nest.s and eggs of such 

 binls, for scientific jturposes only. 



Sec. 2. [.\pi>licant nmst pre.sent certificate signed Ijy an officer of the Hartford 

 Scientific Society .showing that said applicant is a pn>iK'r i)er8on to l)e intruste<l with 

 a license, ami must file with the coiumiss'ioners a boml in the sum of two hundred 

 .h>llars.] 



Sec. 3. [Licenses shall }k> issued for one year, ami ujioii such conditions iuj connnis- 

 sioners may pres«TilK>.] 



Sec. 4. [Applicants shall pay fee of one dollar for licen.'^e.] 



Approved April 19, 1899. 



DELAWARE. 



Revised Statutes, 1893, Chap. LV, p. 457 (Laws of DeL , VoL 17, chap. 607). 



Skc. 1. [IVruiits killing of ree<ll)irds l)etween September 1 and February 1.] 

 Sec. 6. That it shall he unlawful for any person within this State at any time to 

 take, kill or destroy (upon lands not owiu^l by himself) any of the following birds, 

 viz: Kobin, liluebird, martin, swallow, mockingbinl, thrush, wakeuj*, woodi»ecker, 



