AMERICAN GAME PROTECTION. 



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Decoys, live, prohibited in Nantucket County, 

 Mass., 1906. 



Decoys, placing in water before sunrise or shooting 

 over in close season on Currituck Sound pro- 

 hibited, North Carolina, 1899. 



Deer, appraisal on lands inclosed for private park, 

 Vermont, 1911. 



Deer, damage to crops, Vermont, 1902; Maine, 1903; 

 Massachusetts, 1903. 



Deer, first close season, Massachusetts, 1694; Con- 

 necticut, 1698, Virginia, 1699; first close term, 

 Virginia, 1772-1776; close season, New York, 

 1785; Vermont, 1797; Virginia, 1801; New 

 Hampshire, 1816; close season 5 years, 3 coun- 

 ties, New Jersey, 1853; 2 years, Screven County, 

 Ga., 1859; close season 5 years, 3 counties, 

 Long Island, N. Y., 1869; Massachusetts, 1870- 

 1872; hounding prohibited, New York, 1869; 

 limits, Maine, 1883; New York, 1886; killing 

 in water, Michigan, 1887; Wisconsin, 1897; 

 North Carolina, 1905; killing on ice, Wiscon- 

 sin, 1897; jacking, etc., New York, 1897; sea- 

 son reopened, New Jersey, 1909; Massachu- 

 setts, 1910; close terra for 3 years on Long 

 Island, 1910. 



Deer officers, Massachusetts, 1739; New Hampshire, 

 1741. 



Deer reeves, Massachusetts, 1764. 



Deer (see also buck and doe laws). 



Deer (tame) excepted from game law, New Hamp- 

 shire, 1816. 



Definition of game birds, New York, 1886; Penn- 

 sylvania, 1889; Indiana, 1891. (See also A. O. 

 U. " model law".) 



Delaware (close season on deer, 1721); prohibiting 

 Sunday hunting, 1795; prohibiting nonresi- 

 dents from killing or capturing wildfowl, 

 1839, 1841; protecting upland game (New 

 Castle County), 1847; general game law, 1851; 

 rail and reedbirds protected and special pro- 

 vision for publication of the law, 1859; Game 

 Protective Association, 1879; waterfowl pro- 

 tected and close-term ruffed grouse and jack 

 rabbits, 1885; prohibiting hunting in snow, 

 1887; general revision of game laws, 1911; 

 board of game and fish commissioners, 1911. 



Deputy wardens abolished, Missouri, 1907. 



Digest of Bird and Game Laws, Dodge, 1865. 



Disease, quail, 1907; duck, 1910. 



Districts, game, Michigan (Upper Peninsula deer 

 season), 1887; New Jersey, 1888, 1908; Ten- 

 nessee (constitutional provision), 1870; Cali- 

 fornia (constitutional amendment), 1902; 

 North Dakota (district wardens), 1903; Vir- 

 ginia (district wardens), 1903; Alaska, 1904; 

 California, 1911. (See also Long Island.) 



District of Columbia, first general game law, 1878; 

 decision in Javins v. United States, 1897 (sale 

 of imported game); Game and Fish Protec- 

 tive Association, 1897; hunting prohibited 

 except on Eastern Branch, 1906. 



District wardens, Virginia, 1903. 



Dodge, J. R., Digest of Bird and Game Laws, 18G5. 



Doe law, Kentucky (special close season), 1861; 

 California, 1883; South Dakota, 1897-99; Utah 

 (repealed), 1909; Vermont (repealed), 1909; 

 (restored), 1911. 



Dogs running at large (Virginia— beagles or 

 hounds— 1738). 



Dogs, training on game birds in close season pro- 

 hibited, Michigan, 1891; beagles or blood- 

 hounds, New York, 1788; use in hunting deer 

 prohibited, Pennsylvania, 1849; New York, 

 1869; Indiana, 1879; Michigan, 1887; Virginia 

 (in close season), 1856. 



Doves, complete protection, Connecticut, 1850; 

 New Jersey, 1850; baiting prohibited, Geor- 

 gia, 1898; shooting on the ground prohibited, 

 Ohio, 1904. 



Dough bird, close season, Massachusetts, 1835; 1849. 



Drought, may cause suspension of open season, 

 Vermont, 1908; Massachusetts, 1909. 



Drugs, use prohibited in capturing game, Michigan, 

 1897. 



Duck, disease (cholera or coccidiosis), 1910. 



Duck-egg fake, Alaska, memorial Oregon legisla- 

 ture, 1895; history, 1895. 



Ducking police, Maryland, 1872. 



Ducks, baiting prohibited, Illinois, 1909. 



Ducks, close season, Rhode Island, 1846; California, 

 1852; Michigan 1859; New York, 1860; Nevada, 

 1861; Massachusetts, 1870. 



Eagle protected, New York, 1S67; Idaho, 1879. 



Egg Act, 1902. 



Egg traffic on Farallon Islands stopped, California, 

 1896. 



Eggs of game birds protected (upland game, New 

 York, 1708; nests and eggs, Connecticut, 1842); 

 Kentucky, 1SG1; importation prohibited, 1894; 

 export from Alaska prohibited, 1900; impor- 

 tation under permit, 1902. 



Eggs and nests of nongame birds protected, 

 Connecticut, 1850; Vermont, 1851; Pennsyl- 

 vania, 1858; Kentucky, 1861. 



Election day, hunting prohibited, Maryland (Har- 

 ford County), 1902. 



Elk, last killed in New York about 1845; last 

 reported in Arizona, 1901; close season, Cali- 

 fornia, 1852; close term, Michigan, 1879; Cali- 

 fornia, 1883; provision for restocking Adiron- 

 dacks, New York, 1901; killing a felony, 

 California, 1905; appropriation for feeding, 

 Wyoming, 1909; transfer to Big Horn Game 

 Preserve, Wyoming, 1910; appropriations for 

 feeding, Wyoming, 1911; transfer to National 

 Bison Range and Wichita Game Preserve, 

 1911. 



Elk teeth (see Tusk hunting). 



English sparrow, introduction, 1850, 1852; exempt 

 from protection, Pennsylvania, 1883; New 

 Jersey, 1885; New York, 1886. 



Evidence of sale in close season, New York, 1867. 



Examinations, oral, for deputy game wardens, Wis- 

 consin, 1909. 



Explosives prohibited in capturing game, Michigan, 

 1897. 



Export prohibited, Connecticut (skins), 1677; Min- 

 nesota (for sale), 1871; Iowa, 1878; Indiana, 

 1879; killing or possession with intent to 

 export, Wisconsin, 1887. (See also Ship- 

 ment.) 



Extermination, elk, Arizona, 1901; wild pigeon, 

 New York (last roost), 1875; wild turkey, 

 New York, last record, 1S44. 



