88 LEGISLATION FOE THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



ONTARIO. 



Revised Statutes, 1897, cliap. 289. ^ 



[Sec] 1. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to affect The Ontario Game 

 Protection Act, or to apply to any imported cage birds or other domesticated bird or 

 birds generally known as cage birds, or to any bird or birds generally known as 

 poultry. (52 v., c. 50, s. L) 



[Sec] 2. (1) Except as in section 6 of this Act provided, it shall not be lawful to 

 shoot, destroy, wound, catch, net, snare, poison, drug or otherwise kill or injure, 

 or to attempt to shoot, destroy, wound, catch, net, snare, poison, drug or otherwise 

 kill or injure any wild native birds other tlian hawks, crows, blackbirds and 

 English sparrows, and the birds specifically mentioned in The Ontario Game Protec- 

 tion Act. 



(2) Any person may, during the fruit season, for the purpose of protecting his 

 fruit from the attacks of such birds, shoot or destroy, on his own premises, the bird 

 known as the robin without being liable to any penalty under this Act. (52 V., 

 c 50, s. 2.) 



[Sec] 3. Except as in section 6 of this Act provided, it shall not be lawful to take, 

 capture, expose for sale or have in possession any bird whatsoever, save the kinds 

 hereinbefore or hereinafter excepted, or to set, wholly or in part, any net, by which 

 any bird whatsoever, save and except hawks, crows, l)lack1)ir<ls and English spar- 

 rows, might be killed and captured; and any net, trap, springe, snare, cage or other 

 machine or engine, set either wholly or in part for the purpose of either capturing 

 or killing any bird or birds, save and except hawks, crows, blackbirds and English 

 sparrows, may l)e destroyed by any jjerson without such jjersou incurring any 

 liability therefor. (52 V., c. 50, s. 3.) 



[Sec] 4. Save as in section 6 of this Act provided, it shall not be lawful to take, 

 injure, destroy or have in possession hny nest, young or eggs of any bird >vhatsoever, 

 except of hawks, crows, blackbirds, and English si>arrows. (52 V., c. 50, s. 4.) 



[Sec (). The chief game warden may grant to ornithologists, students of ornithology, 

 biologists, or students of biology, i>ermits to collect, pnrcha'^e or exchange birds or 

 eggH.] 



[Sec 7. Such permit.s shall continue in force until the end of the calendar year in 

 which issued, and may W renewed at the option of the chief game warden.] 



[Sec 8. Violation of any provision of this .Vet shall subject the offeniler to the 

 payment ul a fine of $l-$20 with costs, or in default of payment imprisonment of 

 from 2 to 2()<lays.] 



Ontario Game Protection Act, 1900. 



[Sec 4. No person shall kill ducks of any kind or any otlu-r waterfowl between 

 December 15 and Septemlx'r 1 of the following year.] 



[Sec 0. No i)erson shall, on the I.,ord's Day, hunt, take, kill, or destroy any game 

 animal or bird, or use any gun for that i)urpose.] 



QUEBEC. 



Statutes of 1899, Chap. XXIV, p. 73. 



[Skc] 1395/i. For the purposes of this act, which may be cited as the "Quebec 

 Game Laws," the Province of Quebec is divided into two zones, known respectively 

 as Zone No. 1 and Zone No. 2. 



'For the copy of this law 1 am indebted to Mr. II. S. Osier, of Montreal. 



