44 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOK 1901. 



Quebec forbid wasting game, and Nova Scotia requires hunters who 

 kill moose or caribou to carry the flesh out of the woods within ten 

 days. 



Shippers and carriers, no less than sportsmen, are directly concerned 

 in the foregoing provisions of the laws of the various States and Ter- 

 ritories, as the Lacey Act prohibits, under heavy penalty, interstate 

 commerce in game killed in violation of law. Game killed by illegal 

 methods can no more be shipped from State to State than that taken 

 out of season. 



LIMITS OF GAME BAGS. 



Twent3^-f our States have attempted to prevent wanton destruction of 

 game by limiting the amount which may be killed in a day or season. 

 These States comprise the northern tier, from Maine to Washington, 

 and Connecticut, Penns34vania, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, 

 Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Califor- 

 nia, and Oregon. (See PI. V.) Similar restrictions are common in the 

 Canadian laws. Limits as to number have been placed mainl}^ on big 

 game and upland game birds, but in a few cases have been extended 

 to woodcock, rail, and wild fowl. In Colorado, North Dakota, and 

 Nebraska practically all the game of the State is limited, while in 

 Iowa the limit applies to game birds, but not to big game. Michigan, 

 New Hampshire, Utah, and Wisconsin limit only the number of deer, 

 three being allowed each hunter in Michigan and two in New Hamp- 

 shire, Wisconsin, and Utah. The highest limit for big game is in 

 Montana, where six deer or mountain goats may be killed in a season. 

 The maximum for any species of game bird in a day is TO sandpipers 

 in Maine, but the usual limit is 25 or 50. 



Limits of a similar character and for the same object are also placed 

 by several States on the number of birds which may be shipped at one 

 time or in one season, usually corresponding to the number that may 

 be killed, but seldom, in any event, exceeding 50 at a time. Florida 

 prescribes the limit not onh^ for each person, but also for each party, 

 in order to prevent evasion of the law by several persons hunting 

 together. Thus, four wild turke3"s may be killed in a da}- by one 

 person, but not more than six by a party. The following table shows 

 the details of these restrictions: 



Limits of game bags. 



States. 



Game. 



1 Number. 



Arizona 



California 



Deer 



Quail, duck 



Deer 



Quail, partridge, snipe, curlew, ibis. . 



Dove, duck 



Rail. 



1 



. 1 in one day; 3 in a season. 

 . 25 in one day. 

 . 3 in a season. 

 . 25 in one day. 

 . 50 in one day. 

 . 20 in one day. 



