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493. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments. 



494. Birds and land and water fowls. 



549. Eggs of 1:)irds, fish, and insects: Provided, however, That this shall not be held to 

 include the eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not used for food, the importation of 

 which is prohibited except specimens for scientific collections, nor fish roe pre- 

 served for food purposes. 



661. Furs, undressed. 



562. Fur skins of all kinds not dressed in any manner and not specially provided for 

 in this Act. 



664. Skins of all kinds, raw" (except sheepskins with the wool on), and hides not 

 specially provided for in this Act. 



666. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for scien- 

 tific public collections, and not for sale. 

 Approved July 24, 1897. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

 30 Statutes at Larg-e, pp. 1012-1013 (as amended by 31 Stat. I.., 1091). 



Chap. 417. An Act For the protection of birds, preservation of game, and for the prevention of its 

 sale during certain closed seasons in the District of Columbia. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, [Sec. 1 as amended] That no person shall kill, expose for sale, 

 or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any partridge, otherwise quail, 

 between the fifteenth day of March and the first day of November, under a penalty 

 of five dollars for each partridge, otherwise quail, killed, exposed for sale, or had in 

 his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in 

 the workhouse for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 



That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 

 dead or alive, any woodcock between the first day of January and the first day of 

 July, under a penalty of five dollars for each woodcock killed, exposed for sale, or 

 had in his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be impris- 

 oned in the workhouse for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six 

 months. 



That no person shall expose for sale or have in his or her possession, either dead 

 or alive, any prairie chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, between the fifteenth day 

 of March and the first day of September, under a penalty of five dollars for each 

 prairie chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, exposed for sale, or had in his or her 

 possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in the work- 

 house for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 



That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 

 dead or alive, any wild turkey or ruffed grouse, otherwise known as pheasant, between 

 the twenty-sixth day of December and the first day of November, except the English, 

 ring-neck, or other pheasants of foreign origin hatched and raised in farm poultry 

 inclosures, under a penalty of five dollars for each wild turkey or ruffed grouse, other- 

 wise known as pheasant, killed, exposed for sale, or had in his or her possession, 

 either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in the workhouse for a 

 period not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 



That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 

 dead or alive, any squirrel or rabbit except the species known as the English rabbit, 

 Belgian hare, between the first day of February and the first day of November, under 

 a penalty of two dollars for each squirrel or rabbit killed, exposed for sale, or had in 

 his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in 

 the Avorkhouse for a period not less than fifteen days nor more than three months. 



