INDEX. 



93 



s, hunting, 41. 



nonresident, 41. 



resident, 41. 

 Linnets exempt from protection, 36. 

 Loons exempt from protection, 36, 37. 

 Louisiana law, 65. 



captive birds, 42. 



Magpies exempt from protection, 37, 

 Maine, definition of game birds, 13. 



law, 65-6p. 

 Manitoba law, 86. 

 Maryland law, 66-67. 



against selling or wearing birds or feathers, 

 12, 66. 



captive birds, 42. 

 Massachusetts, early game law, 10. 



law, 67-68. 



against wearing birds and feathers, 11, 67, 

 Meadowlarks, 20-21. 



food, 20-21. 



open seasons, 20. 

 Mergansers exempt from protection, 37. 

 Michigan, definition of game birds, 13. 



law, 68-69. 



captive birds, 43. 

 Millinery use of birds, law against in California, 

 11,58. 



Maryland, 12, 66. 



Massachusetts, 11-12, 67-68. 



New York, 12, 74. 

 Minnesota, Bird Day, 12, 90. 



law, 69-70. 



captive birds, 43. 

 Mississippi, definition of game, 14. 



law, 70-71. 

 Missouri law, 71. 

 Montana law, 71. 



Nebraska, law, 71. 



number of species of birds, 23. 

 Nests and eggs, 27-28. 

 Nevada law, 72. 

 New Brunswick, definition of game, 14,86. 



law, 86-87. 

 Newfoundland law, 87. 

 New Hampshire law, 72. 

 New Jersey, first legislation, 10. 



law, 73. 



captive birds, 43. 

 New Mexico, protection limited to game, 45, 55. 

 New York, early game law, 10. 



law, 74. 

 against sale of birds for millinery purposes, 

 12, 74. 

 Nighthawks exempt from protection, 36. 

 Nonexport laws, constitutional, 55-56. 

 Non-game birds defined, 23-24. 

 Nonresident licenses, 41. 

 North C;p,rolina law, 74. 

 North Dakota law, 75. 

 Nova Scotia, definition of game, 14., 



law, 87. 



Objections, to enumerating species protected, 

 23-25. 

 to term insectivorous birds, 23-25. 

 to treating reedbirds as game, 1£(. 



Ohio law, 75-76. 

 Oklahoma law, 76. 

 Ontario law, 88. 



captive birds, 43. 

 Open seasons, doves, 16. 



flickers, 17. 



meadowlarks, 20. 



reedbirds, 18. 



robins, 22. 

 Orders of North American bii-ds, 25. 

 Oregon law, 76-77. 

 Owl, barred, 36. 



great horned, 36. 

 Owls, exempt from protection, 36, 37. 



protected, 29. 



Pelicans, exempt from protection, 37. 



protected, 27. 

 Penalties for destroying birds and eggs, 31-35. 

 Pennsylvania law, 77-78. 



captive birds, 43. 

 Permits for collecting for scientific purposes, 37-40. 

 Pigeons, band-tailed, 15. 



passenger, 15. 



roosts protected, 68. 



wild, exempt from protection, 37. 

 protected, 60, 67. 

 Plumage, sale prohibited, 11-12. 

 Plume birds, 25-28. 



protected, 27. 



special legislation, 26. 

 Protective legislation, history, 10-12. 



Quebec game laws, 88-89. 



Savens exempt from protection, 36, 37. 



Recollets, 37. (See Wax wings.) 



Red-winged blackbirds exempt from protection, 



21. 

 Reedbirds or bobolinks, 18-19. 

 Regulations, as to collecting for scientific pur- 

 poses, 38-40. 



as to number of birds killed, 41. 



prohibiting export of birds, 41. 



prohibiting sale of certain birds, 41. 

 Rhode Island, law, 78-79. 



number of species of birds, 23. 

 Ricebirds, 18-19. 



exempt from protection, 36. 

 Robins, 22-23. 



food, 23. 



Scientific collecting, provisions, 37-40. 

 Sea birds, in England, 12. 



protected, 26-28. 

 Shrikes exempt from protection, 37. 

 Song and insectivorous birds, 23-25. 

 South Carolina law, 79-80. 



captive birds, 43. 

 South Dakota law, 80. ' 



Sparrows exempt from protection, 36, 37. 

 Species, exempt from protection, 35-37. 



number in North America, 25. 



objections to enumerating, 23-25. 



protected, 30-35. 

 Starlings exempt from protection, 37. 

 State courts' decisions, 55. 



