82 LEGISLATIOlSr FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



UTAH. 

 liaws of 1899, chap. 26, p. 42. 



Sec. 21. [Permits killing of mourning doves between July 1 and December 1, but 

 prohibits the robbing or destroying of nests, eggs or young.] 



Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, ensnare, net or entrap at any 

 time in any year any gull, owl, hawks, lark, whippoorwill, thrush, swallow, snow- 

 bird, robins or other insectivorous or song birds, except the English sparrow, or to 

 rob or destroy the nests, eggs or young of any of said protected birds mentioned in 

 this section. 



Sec. 27. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act * * * shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and shall l)e fined not less than ten dollars. 



Sec 29. [It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to ship or cause to be 

 shippe<l out of the State, any of the lairds or any part thereof mentioned in this act.] 



Approved March 0, 1899. 



VERMONT. 

 Vermont Statutes, 1894, title 31, chap. 189, p. 829. 



Sec 4014. If a person shoots, or otherwise intentionally wounds, entraps, ensnares 

 or captures a wild or undomesticated bird, except quail, woodcock, wild duck, Wil- 

 son's or English snii)e, ruffed grouse, wildgoo.se, plover, pheasant, English partridge, 

 merganser, l)luc lieron, l)ittern, loon, English sparrow, crow black liird, crow, jay, 

 or birds of prey, or if a i)erson de-stroys the nest or eggs of any wild or undomesti- 

 cated birds, except the nest or eggs of a merganser, l)lue heron, bittern, loon, English 

 sparrow, crow black l)ir<l, crow, jay aiid 1)irds of ])n'y, lie shall be fined five dollars 

 for each offense. 



Sec 461.3 (as anicudc<l Noveml)cr 4, 1>S9.S, Act 104, i>. 81). [Provides for permits to 

 collect for scientifitr i)urj)oses as follows: "The fisli and game counnissioners may 

 connni.s.siou persons, for a time specified, reserving a power of revocation, to take, 

 kill, cai)ture and have in possession any .species of l)irds other than domestic, and 

 the nests an<l eggs tliereof, for scientifii- ]>urposes only, Imt the numl)er oi such com- 

 missions in force at any onr time sliall not cxrccd livi'."] 



VIRGINIA. ' 

 Code, 1887, title 27, chap. 95, p. 520. 



Sioc 2079. It shall lif unlawful l.ir any ].crsoM * * * 



Third ■•■ * * atany tinu', to kill the turkey buzzard or hlack buzzard, or to 

 capture, for sale or transi>ortation, or kill the mocking Itird, or kill or capture the 

 brown thrn.sh, cardinal or red })iril, wood rohin, blue bir<l, liouse martin, or starling, 

 or destroy their nests or 



Fifth * * * to shoot, or in any manner kill or dt'stroy the hird known a.<! the 

 gull or .striker, before the first day of Septeml»er, or take its eggs later in the sea.son 

 than the twentieth of July. 



Sec 2080. If any i>erson violate any of the provisions of the preceding section, he 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, * * * the offender shall be fined ten 

 dollars for each offence and imprisoned in jail until the fine be i)aid, but not exceed- 

 ing thirty days. 



Sec 2081. The two preceding sections shall not ajiply to the counties of ^lecklen- 

 burg, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sassex, Greenesville, Cumberland, Nottoway, Lunen- 

 burg, Amelia and Appouiattox. * * * 



' No attempt has been made to include the sjiecial county laws. 



