24 CHKONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1851. Vermont.— First law protecting nongame birds throughout the year and pro- 



hibiting the destruction of their nests or eggs under .penalty of $1 for each 

 offense (No. 30). 

 Wisconsin. — First game laws prohibiting killing of deer, Feb. 1 to July 1 (chap. 

 171), and prairie chicken, quail, woodcock, and pheasant, Feb. 1 to Aug. 1 

 (chap. 380). 



1852. California. — First game law (applicable to 12 counties), protecting quail, 



mallard duck, and wood duck, Mar. 1 to Sept. 20; deer, elk, and antelope, 



Jan. 1 to June 1 (chap. 61). 

 Maine. — Establishment of office of county moose warden and prohibiting aliens 



from hunting moose or deer (chap. 294). 

 New Jersey. — Provision prohibiting hunting waterfowl from boat or other 



floating device placed more than three rods from shore, bank, or ice line 



(chap. 18). 

 First successful attempt to introduce the English sparrow. A fund of $200 



was raised, about 100 birds were imported from England by a committee of 



the Brooklyn Institute, New York; 50 were liberated at the Narrows and 



the others in Greenwood Cemetery in the spring of 1853 (Bull. No. 1, Biol. 



Surv., p. 17, 1889). 



1853. California. — Law shortening the close seasons, quail, mallard duck, and wood 



duck, Mar. 20 to Sept. 1; deer, elk, and antelope, Mar. 1 to July 1 (chap. 137). 

 Illinois. — First game law (applicable to 15 counties), protecting deer, prairie 



chicken, quail, woodcock, and wood partridge, Jan. 1 to July 20 (p. 212). 

 New Jersey. — Close season on deer for 5 years in Bergen, Ocean, and Atlantic 



Counties (chap. 96). 



1854. Alabama. — First law protecting snipe, summer duck, and poult deaux in 



Baldwin, Washington, and Mobile Counties (No. 317). Provision prohibiting 



killing wild turkeys or catching them in pens, traps, or snares in close season 



in same counties (No. 62, sec. 4). 

 North Carolina. — Law prohibiting nonresidents from hunting wildfowl in waters 



of Currituck County (chap. 55). 

 Wisconsin. —Law shortening season 2 weeks (Jan. 1 to July 15) and prohibiting 



trapping of quail, grouse, or prairie chicken except on owner's premises. 



1855. Arkansas. — Law prohibiting Sunday hunting (p. 180). 

 Iowa. — Sunday hunting prohibited (chap. 33). 



Maryland. — Decision in case of Smith v. Maryland (18 How., 71). 



Massachusetts. — Law protecting robins, thrushes, linnets, sparrows, bluebirds, 

 bobolinks, yellowbirds, woodpeckers, and warblers throughout the year, and 

 prohibiting purchase, sale, or possession of such birds whether taken or killed 

 "in this Commonwealth or elsewhere" (chap. 197). 



1856. Alabama. — Law prohibiting hunting or trapping wild hogs in 15 counties without 



first giving notice to 3 householders nearest place of hunt (No. 203). 



Mississippi. — Act giving county boards of police power to pass ordinances regu- 

 lating times, places, circumstances, and quantities in which oysters and game 

 may be taken or made marketable; sheriffs, constables, town and city marshals 

 authorized to seize with or without process any person who they see or have 

 good reason to believe is violating the regulations (chap. 95). 



Virginia. — Law prohibiting killing or running deer with dogs, Jan. 15 to July 15 

 (ehap. 123). 



1857. Indiana. — First game law protecting deer, Jan. 1 to Aug. 1; wild turkey, 



Mar. 1 to Sept. 1; pheasant and quail, Jan. 1 to Oct. 1; and prairie chicken, 

 Jan. 1 to Aug. 1; deer in parks and domesticated wild fowl excepted (chap. 31). 

 Iowa. — First game law protecting deer, elk, wild turkey, prairie chicken, grouse, 

 and quail, Feb. 1 to July 15 (chap. 164). 



