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Zone No. 1 comprises the whole Province, less that part of the counties of Chi- 

 coutimi and Saguenay to the east and north of the river Saguenay. 



Zone No. 2 comprises that part of the counties of Chicoutimi and Saguenay to the 

 east and north of the river Saguenay. 



[Sec] 1401. It is forbidden at all times [under a penalty of f2 to |5, provided by 

 sec. 1410] to shoot or kill, and, between the first day of March and the first day of 

 September in each year, to take by means of nets, traps, springs, snares, cages or 

 otherwise any of the birds known as perchers, such as swallows, kingbirds, warblers, 

 flycatchers, woodpeckers, whip-poor-wills, finches, (song sparrows, red-birds, indigo 

 birds, &c.,) cow-buntings, titmice, goldfinches, grives, (robins, wood- thrushes, &c.,) 

 kinglets, bobolinks, grakles, grosbeaks, humming-birds, cuckoos, &c. , or to take their 

 nests or eggs, except eagles, falcons, hawks and other birds of the falconidae, owls, 

 wild-pigeons, kingfishers, crows, ravens, waxwings (recoUets) , shrikes, jays, magpies, 

 sparroAvs and starlings ; and whosoever finds any nets, traps, springs, snares, cages, 

 &c., so placed or set, may take possession of or destroy the same. (R. S. Q., 1401.) 

 [This section applies to both zones 1 and 2. ] 



[Sec] 1417. The Commissioner may grant written licenses to any person, bona fide, 

 desirous of obtaining birds' eggs or fur-bearing or other animals for scientific or 

 breeding purposes during the close season. 



Persons not domiciled in the Province of Quebec shall for such licenses, pay a fee 

 which shall not be less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be 

 determined by the Commissioner according to the number and importance of the 

 objects such licenses are applied for. 



No person, who has obtained such a license, shall be liable to any penalty enacted 

 by this section, provided that, at the expiration of his license, he files, in the Depart- 

 ment of Lands, Forests and Fisheries, a solemn declaration setting forth the species 

 and number of birds, eggs and fur-bearing or other animals so procured by him 

 for scientific or breeding purposes. (R. S. Q., 1417; 59 V., c. 20, s. 9.) 



[Sec] 1420. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, in his discretion, prohibit 

 the hunting or killing of any bird or fur-bearing animal, for a period not exceeding 

 five years. (R. S. Q., 1420.) 



Assented to, February 25, 1899. 



