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Shore Birds. 
Chapter 414 of the Acts of 1905 establishes a close season 
on the Bartramian sandpiper or upland plover until July 15, 
1910. 
Upland Game Birds. 
Quail were specially protected for three years on Nan- 
tucket from 1905 to March 1, 1908, after which Nantucket 
became subject to the general law regarding quail, partridge 
and woodcock, which was enacted in 1908. This limits the 
shooting season for rutfed grouse, bob-white and woodcock 
to the month of October. 
Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1906 continues the close season 
on the heath hen to 1911, and provides a penalty of $50 
for violation of the act. 
Eagles , Haivks and Owls. 
Chapter 118 of the Acts of 1907 protects eagles at all 
times. 
Chapter 250 of the Acts of 1907 protects all hawks and 
owls except the sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper hawk, goshawk, 
red-tailed hawk, red-shouldered hawk, duck hawk, barred 
owl, great horned owl and snowy owl. 
Bird Reservations. 
Most public parks and cemeteries and all metropolitan and 
State reservations are now in effect bird reservations, on 
which shooting and trapping is prohibited. There are three 
instances where all shooting has been forbidden in certain 
towns for a series of years; but chapter 504 of the Acts of 
1907 makes the first attempt of Massachusetts to establish 
a reserve purely for the protection of birds. 
The Commissioners on Fisheries and Game were author- 
ized by this act to take unimproved lands on the island of 
Martha’s Vineyard for the protection of the pinnated 
grouse and other birds. The commissioners have taken a 
tract for this purpose, partly by gift and partly by pur- 
