32 CHRONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



1883. Georgia. — Act to prevent the discharge of firearms on public highways, or 



within 50 yards thereof, between dark and daylight (No. 378). 



Maine. — First limit law on big game, 1 moose, 2 caribou, 3 deer a season (chap. 

 185). 



Pennsylvania. — Act prohibiting killing web-footed wildfowl except on Mon- 

 days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Sept. 1 to Jan. 1 (Act May 17). Repealed 

 1885. Act removing protection from the English sparrow (Act June 4). 



1884. Appointment of the American Ornithologists' Union committee on protection 



of North American birds (Auk, I, p. 376, 1884; Bird-Lore, VII, p. 46, 1905). 



1885. Delaware. — First protection for waterfowl and first close terms for ruffed grouse 



and jack rabbit (chap. 507). 

 New Jersey. — Prohibiting killing, possession, or exposing for sale of certain 

 nongame birds, including snowbird, tern, gull, "or any insectivorous or 

 song bird, not generally known as a game bird" (sec. 1), or killing, buying, 

 or selling said birds, "or any heron, crane, fish hawk, kingfisher, yellow- 

 hammer or blue jay, " for the purpose of preserving or stuffing the same as 

 an article of ornament or apparel (sec. 3); excepting the English sparrow 

 from protection (chap. 207). 



1886. Congress. — Provision forbidding legislatures of the Territories to pass local 



laws for the protection of game or fish (24 Stat., 170). 



Kansas. — Law prohibiting hunting on traveled or public roads; and sale of 

 protected birds except by hunter to direct consumer (chap. 110). 



Massachusetts. — Jurisdiction of commissioners of fisheries extended to game. 



New Jersey. — Decision in the case of Allen v. Wyckoff (48 N. J. L., 90) sus- 

 taining the nonresident license law. 



New York. — Enactment of the first limit law in the State, 3 deer a season, 

 prohibiting hounding in Delaware and St. Lawrence Counties at any time, 

 and in rest of State except Sept. 1 to Oct. 5, and prohibiting crusting or 

 killing deer while yarded (chap. 194), and the first A. O. U. "model law" 

 for the protection of nongame birds, with definition of game birds, provision 

 for permits for collecting specimens for scientific purposes, excepting the 

 English sparrow from protection (chap. 427; see also Science, No. 160, 

 Supp., p. 13, Feb. 26, 1886); law prohibiting sailing for wildfowl or shooting 

 them from boats propelled by steam or sails except on Long Island Sound, 

 Lake Ontario, and Hudson River below Iona Island (chap. 112). 



Ohio. — Establishment of the board of 5 commissioners of fish and game, term 

 5 years (p. 186, sec. 1). 



Organization of first Audubon Society by Forest and Stream, New York. 



Publication of Law of Field Sports by G. P. Smith, containing summaries of 

 State game laws. 



1887. Arizona. — Jurisdiction of fish commissioners extended to game (Rev. Stat., 



p. 536); first protection for deer, elk, antelope, goat, sheep, Feb. 1 to Oct. 1; 



partridge, wild turkey, duck, goose, brant, swan, curlew, plover, snipe, 



rail, Mar. 1 to Sept. 1 (Rev. Stat., p. 752). 

 Delaware. — Provision prohibiting hunting when the ground is covered with 



snow (chap. 100, sec. 3). 

 Georgia. — Introduction of the English pheasant; 78 liberated on Jekyl Island, 



near Brunswick, increased to 850 the following year (Forest and Stream, 



XXXI, p. 221, 1888). 

 Michigan. — Establishment of fish and game warden department with State 



warden appointed for 4 years, at a salary of $1,200 per annum (No. 28, ap- 

 proved Mar. 15). Provisions for special deer season on Upper Peninsula; 



prohibiting killing deer in water, by pits, traps, artificial lights, or use of 



dogs in hunting (No. 256). 



