28 CHEONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1869. Wyoming. — First game law, prohibiting offering for sale elk, deer, antelope, and 



mountain sheep, Feb. 1 to Aug. 15; pheasant, quail, prairie chicken, and 

 sage hen, Feb. 1 to Aug. 15 (chap. 12). 



1870. Maine. — Close season for deer, moose, and caribou Feb. 1 to Oct. 1, first protec- 



tion for caribou (chap. 134). Protection of nongame birds, larks, robins, 

 swallows, and sparrows; and also partridges, grouse, quail, woodcock, and 

 snipe, Feb. 1 to Sept. 1 (chap. 165 — compare 1863). 



Massachusetts. — First law prohibiting spring shooting of rail, snipe, plover, 

 or shorebirds, Apr. 1 to July 15; and wood duck, black duck, and teal, Mar. 1 

 to Sept. 1; providing open season for wild pigeons in September, October, 

 and November; protecting deer for 2 years, heath hen for 6 years; providing 

 for permits for collecting birds for scientific purposes (chap. 304). 



Montana. — First game law, protecting grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, and 

 fool hen, Mar. 1 to Aug. 15, and making a close season for three years for part- 

 ridge and quail (1869-70, p. 65). 



North Carolina. — Law prohibiting use of any gun other than one fired from the 

 shoulder on the waters of Currituck County, or use of any blinds or bat- 

 teries in the water away from the marshes or shores. (Chap. 42. Ratified 

 Feb. 14.) Repealed Dec, 1870. 



Pennsylvania. — Three-year close season for quail in Berks County (No. 407), 



Tennessee. — Constitutional provision authorizing local game legislation for 

 "particular counties or geographical districts designated by the General 

 Assembly" (Art. XI, sec. 13). 



1871. First bill introduced in Congress to protect buffalo. 



Alabama. — Uniform open season for all game, Sept. 1 to Mar. 1 in Mobile County 



(Acts 1871-72, No. 168). 

 Massachusetts. — Repeal of anti-spring-shooting provisions on shorebirds (see 



1870). 

 Minnesota. — General game law containing provisions prohibiting export of 



game for sale or traffic (sec. 12) and for publishing the game law annually 



during the first week in April in some newspaper at the county seat of each 



county (chap. 33). 

 Mississippi. — Provision granting boards of county supervisors power to regulate 



protection of game (Code, chap. 30, sec. 1889). 

 New York.— Codification of the game laws 1859-71. (Sec. 22 authorized county 



boards of supervisors to pass ordinances for the protection of birds, fish, o r 



game other than those mentioned in the act.) Compare 1849. 



Creation of the office of game constable. Election held in each town for 



officer to serve for one year, compensation fees of constable and half the fines 



(chap. 721). 

 Ohio. — Organization of the State Society for the Protection of Game and Fish 



(afterwards Cuvier Club, see 1874). 

 Pennsylvania. — Incorporation of the Blooming Grove Park Association (p. 441) 



and establishment of its game preserve. 

 Utah. — Introduction of bobwhite quail in Great Salt Lake Valley (Allen in 



Bendire's Hist. N. Am. Birds, II, p. 2, 1892). 

 Wyoming. — Law prohibiting waste of game (p. 113). 



1872. Congress. — Introduction of the Cole resolution in the Senate "that the Com- 



mittee on Territories be directed to inquire into the expediency of enacting 

 a law for the protection of the buffalo, elk, antelope, and other animals." 

 Establishment of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (17 Stat., 32). 

 Colorado. — Law prohibiting waste of game (p. 134, sec. 6). 



