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Permits for collecting birds for scientific purposes, 

 Massachusetts, 1870; New York, 1886; Penn- 

 sylvania, 1889. 



Personal property in game in captivity, Illinois, 

 1877. 



Pheasants, ring-necked, imported into Oregon, 1881; 

 close term, Oregon, 1882. 



Photographing big game in winter, license required, 

 Wyoming, 1905. 



Pits, for capturing deer prohibited, Michigan, 1887. 



Platform, Forest and Stream, antisale, 1894; 

 Homaday's Sportsman's, 1910. 



Plover, close season, Massachusetts, 1835; 1849; no 

 open season (included with insectivorous 

 birds), Vermont, 1851. 



Plumage, Florida, 1877; California, 1895; Massachu- 

 setts, 1897, 1898; Maryland (seizure of gulls), 

 1900; Louisiana, 1907 (decision in State v. 

 Schwartz); Shea bill, New York, 1910, 1911; 

 New Jersey, 1911. 



Pneumatic boats prohibited, Michigan, 1897. 



Poachers arrested on Laysan Island, 1909. 



Poison (see Drugs). 



Police boards (county) to pass ordinances to protect 

 game, Mississippi, 1856. 



Police, ducking, Maryland, 1872. 



Police juries to pass ordinances to protect game, 

 Louisiana, 1896. 



Police officers to enforce game law, New York, 1869. 



Possession, person chasing deer in close season 

 deemed in possession thereof, New York, 

 1844. 



Posted lands, trespassing, New York. 1869; District 

 of Columbia, 1878. 



Prairie chicken, close season, Wisconsin, 1851; close 

 term (5 years, New York, 1860); 10 years, New 

 York, 1862; 10 years, New York, 1867; 5 years, 

 New Jersey, 1866; 2 years, Colorado, 1867; 6 

 years, New Jersey, 1874; netting prohibited, 

 Indiana, 1867; bag limits, Iowa, 1878; season 

 opened Illinois, 1911. 



Private preserves, Caton preserve, Illinois, 1858; 

 Blooming Grove Park, Pa., 1871. 



Privilege, hunting game declared a privilege, Arkan- 

 sas, 1889. 



Publication of game law, reading at head of militia 

 companies, South Carolina, 1789; Mississippi, 

 1803; Florida, 1828; in newspaper 4 weeks be- 

 fore opening of season, Delaware, 1859; in 

 newspaper at county seat in April, Wisconsin, 

 1867; Minnesota, 1871; in pamphlet form, New 

 York, 1873; Wisconsin, 1887; summaries issued 

 by United States Department of Agriculture, 

 1900. 



Publications (see Game law publications). 



Punt guns (see Big guns). 



Quail, close season (New York, 1708); New York, 

 1791; Massachusetts, 1818; New Jersey, 1820; 

 close term, 2 years, Galveston Island, Tex., 

 1860; 3 years, Pennsylvania (Berks County), 

 1870; bobwhite introduced in Utah, 1871, and 

 Idaho, 1875; California Valley, in Washing- 

 ton, 1857; bag limits, Iowa, 1878; European, 

 introduced in New England, 1879; shooting 

 on the ground, Ohio, 1904. 



Quail disease ( Colibacillosis tetraonidarum), 1907. 



Quail, netting prohibited, Indiana, 1867; possession 

 for preservation over winter permitted, New 

 York, 1867; Pennsylvania, 1869; sale prohib- 

 ited, Tennessee, 1911. 



Rabbits, close season, New Jersey, 1820; hunting 

 with ferrets (see Ferrets); protection removed, 

 West Virginia, 1911. 



Rail protected, Pennsylvania, 1859; Delaware, 1859. 



Reedbirds, close season, Pennsylvania, 1859; Dela- 

 ware, 1859. 



Reelfoot Lake fish and game preserve, Tennes- 

 see, 1909. 



Repeals, protection of muskrat, Vermont, 1801, 

 1829; game laws of 1729, 1738, 1745, 1766, Ten- 

 nessee, 1809; act incorporating West Jersey 

 Game Protective Association, 1896; county 

 laws, Alabama, 1907; Tennessee, 1903; Texas, 

 1903; Virginia, 1903; Massachusetts antispring 

 shooting law of 1870, 1871; Missouri game law 

 of 1905. 1907; Michigan hunting accident law, 

 1911. 



Reservations, bird, Florida, 1903; 26 established, 

 1909; National Monument, Mount Olympus, 

 Wash., 1909; National Parks, Yellowstone, 

 Wyo., 1872; General Grant, Sequoia, and 

 Yosemite, Cal., 1890; Mount Rainier, Wash., 

 1899; Glacier, Mont., 1910. 



Resident license, Michigan, 1895; North Dakota, 

 1895; Alabama, 1907; Louisiana, 1908; New 

 York, 1908; Massachusetts, 1909; Texas, 1909; 

 repealed, West Virginia, 1911. 



Residents, hunting privileges, Virginia, 1819, 1833; 

 landowners authorized to arrest nonresident 

 hunters, New Jersey, 1837. 



Rest days, Susquehanna Flats, Md., 1872; Barnegat 

 Bay, N. J., 1879; Housatonic River, Conn., 

 1880; Pennsylvania, 1883; Currituck Sound, 

 N. C, 1897; (deer) Massachusetts, 1S82. 



Revision of game laws, New Jersey, 1846; New York, 

 1867, 1871, 1908; Pennsylvania, 1878; Michi- 

 gan, 1901; Georgia, 1903; Maine, 1903; Ohio, 

 1904; Utah, 1909; Delaware, 1911; Kansas, 

 1911. 



Reynolds, C. B., Book of the Game Laws, 1890. 



Rhode Island, first law on game birds, prohibiting 

 spring shooting, shooting on lands of another 

 without permission, Feb. 1 to Sept. 1, 1846; 

 prohibiting use of ferrets or weasels in hunt- 

 ing hares or rabbits, 1860; special constable to 

 enforce game law, 1874; commission on birds, 

 1899. 



Rifles prohibited, Core Sound, N. C, 1893; for shoot- 

 ing water fowl, Illinois, 1911; North Dakota, 

 1911; for shooting deer, New Jersey, 1909. 



Ring shooting boobies on Currituck Sound prohib- 

 ited Nov. 10 to Feb. 15, North Carolina, 

 1899. 



Robin, close season, Massachusetts, 1818; protec- 

 tion throughout the year, Connecticut, 1850; 

 New Jersey, 1850; Massachusetts (1850), 1855; 

 sale prohibited, Tennessee, 1911. 



Ruffed grouse, close season, (New York, 1708); 

 New York, 1791; Massachusetts, 1818; New 

 Jersey, 1820; close term, 3 years, New Jersey, 

 1869; bag limits, Iowa, 1878. 



Sage hen, close season, Nevada, 1861; sale prohib- 

 ited in close season, Wyoming, 1869. 



