GAME PEOTECTED FOE A TEEM OF YEAES. 



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Pheasants and other foreign game birds are almost always given a 

 close season of several years after introduction. They arc protected 

 in 30 States (see PL IV). In Oregon, so far as the ring-neck pheasant 

 Is concerned, this protection is confined to the region east of the Cas- 

 cades and some of the counties in the western part of the State, but 

 several other pheasants are protected in all the counties. Protection 

 without limit is in force in California, Colorado, Indiana, Montana, 

 Nebraska, Utah, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and 

 some of the counties of Virginia. The periods expire in 1902 in Idaho, 

 Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas (thus leaving the birds without 

 protection for nearly a year, as the legislatures do not meet in these 

 States until 1903); in 1903 in South Carolina and Wisconsin; in 1904 

 in Alabama, Minnesota, and Oklahoma; in 1905 in Georgia, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington (east of the 

 Cascades), Rhode Island, and Ontario; in 1906 in Connecticut, Illinois, 

 Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming; in 1910 in Michigan, and in 1911 

 in Maine. These terms of protection are shown in the following table: 



Game birds protected for a term of years. 



states. 



Quail. 



Wild turkey. 



Dove. 



Introduced pheas- 

 ant. 



Maine 







Indefinitely 



do 



To Mar. 22, 1911. 









f Vermont 







do 





Massachu.setts 







do 



To 1905 









do 



To Oct. 1, 1905. 

 To June 1,1906. 



Connecticut 







do 



New York 







do 



To 1905. 



• Pennsylvania 









To May 27, 1902. 



' Delaware . 







Indefinitely 



do 





' District of Columbia . . . 









i Virfifinia 









Indefinitely, i 



West Virginia 







Indefinitely 



do 



; Michigan 





To 1910 



To 1910, 



Indiana 





Indefinitely 





Indefinitely. 



Illinois 









To May 10, 1906. 





To Sept. 1, 1903 





Indefinitely 



To Sept. 1, 1903. 

 To Sept. 1, 1904. 



Minnesota 







Iowa 







Indefinitely 





To Nov. 1, 1903 .... 







North Dakota 







To Sept. 1,1905. 

 Indefinitely. 

 To Sept. 1, 1906. 

 Indefinitely. 

 To Dec. 22, 1903. 

 To Nov. 30, 1905. 

 To Feb 8 1904 



Montana 



Indefinitely 













Indefinitely 



Colorado 



Indefinitely 





South Carolina 

















Alabama 









Tennessee 









To Mar. 13, 1902. 









Indefinitely 





Texas 







To May 27, 1902. 

 To Jan. 1, 1904. 



a^ Oklflhomn 









^K 'Nfwr MPYiV-n 









To Mar. 14 1906. 



^kr r'.^1ifr.|-r,if, 









Indefinitely. 

 To Sept. 1,1906. 

 Indefinitely. 

 To 1902 



^fc M«,,aHo 









^H Tif..y. 



Indefinitely . . . . 







^H THaV.^ 









^^B WQO>,ir,rrfr.T, 



To 1903 







To Aug. 15. 1905. 2 

 To Oct. 1, 1905. a 







To Oct 1, 1905 





^V British Columbia 



Indefinitely 







HT MflnifnKQ 







Indefinitely 



do 





^B Ontpriri 





To Oct. 15 1905 



To Sept. 15, 1905. 

 Indefinitely. 

 Do. 



If^" New Brunswick 









Nova Scotia 



















1 Certain counties only. 



2 East of Cascades. 



3 Does not include the ring-neck pheasant in some of the counties west of the Cascades, for which 

 an open season has been provided. 



