CLOSE SEASONS. 17 



December 1-Oetober 1, the open season begins October 1 and ends 

 December 1 (it being understood in each case that the last date is 

 excluded). In some States certain days of the week constitute addi- 

 tional close seasons throughout the term in which killing is permitted. 

 Sundays constitute a close season for all game in Maine, Massachusetts, 

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Allegany County, 

 Md., the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Alabama, Ohio, the 

 Indian Territory, and in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. 

 Mondays also constitute a close season for wild ducks in Ohio ; Mondays, 

 Wednesdays, and Fridays for rail, reedbirds, and red- winged black- 

 birds in the District of Columbia, and for wild fowl in Carteret County, 

 N. C, and Wednesdays and Saturdays for wild fowl in Currituck 

 County, N. C. Similar exceptions are made for wild fowl in the Mary- 

 land laws for Anne Arundel, Cecil, Dorchester, and Harford counties. 



These special exceptions are not noticed in the table here given; 

 but apart from this, and with the further exception of the county 

 laws of Alabama, Mississippi, and Virginia, of which no recent com- 

 pilation is available, the table may be regarded as a complete resume 

 of the regulations now in force. It is based primarily on the sum- 

 mary contained in 'Came Laws in Brief,' issued by the Forest and 

 Stream Publishing Company, and has been corrected to December 1, 

 1900. In its preparation, the laws passed during the present year by 

 Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, 

 Rhode Island, and South Carolina have been consulted. The section 

 relating to Maryland county laws has been taken from the synopsis 

 prepared by the Maryland Game and Fish Protective Association, 

 and has been corrected by Mr. Frank C. Kirkwood, secretary of the 

 association. That for North Carolina is based on the synopsis of the 

 game laws published by Mr. T. K. Bruner, secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, in the Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Agri- 

 culture for October, 1900. The one relating to Tennessee county laws 

 has been compiled directly from the code of 1896 and the session laws 

 of 1897 and 1899. Finallj^, the section covering the quail laws of Vir- 

 ginia has been prepared from data furnished by Mr. Franklin Stearns, 

 chief warden of the Virginia division of the League of American 

 Sportsmen. 



The dilficulty of securing absolute accuracy in a table of this kind 

 is very great, and the absence in the laws of many States of express 

 legislation as to the inclusion or exclusion of the dates beginning and 

 ending the seasons makes exactness in this particular a matter of 

 doubt. Sportsmen and others are therefore requested to examine the 

 table and to report promptly any inaccuracies which may be found, so 

 that future editions inay be made as correct as possible. 



