GAME PEOTECTED FOE A TEEM OF YEAES. 
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Pheasants and other foreign game birds are almost always given a 
close season of several years after introduction. They are protected 
in 30 States (see PL IV). In Oregon, so far as the ring-neck pheasant 
Is concerned, this protection is confined to the region east of the Cas- 
cades and some of the counties in the western part of the State, but 
several other pheasants are protected in all the counties. Protection 
without limit is in force in California, Colorado, Indiana, Montana, 
Nebraska, Utah, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and 
some of the counties of Virginia. The periods expire in 1902 in Idaho, 
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas (thus leaving the birds without 
protection for nearly a year, as the legislatures do not meet in these 
States until 1903); in 1903 in South Carolina and Wisconsin; in 1904 
in Alabama, Minnesota, and Oklahoma; in 1905 in Georgia, Massa- 
chusetts, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington (east of the 
Cascades), Rhode Island, and Ontario; in 1906 in Connecticut, Illinois, 
Nevada, New Mexico, and W3^oming; in 1910 in Michigan, and in 1911 
in Maine. These terms of protection are shown in the following table: 
Game birds protected for a term of years. 
states. 
Quail. 
Wild turkey. 
Dove. 
Introduced pheas- 
ant. , 
Maine 
Indefinitely 
do '. 
To Mar. 22, 1911. 
Vermont 
do 
do 
T(j 1905. 
Kliode Island 
do 
To Oct. 1, 1905. 
Connecticut 
do 
To June 1,1906. 
New York 
do 
To 1905. 
Pennsylvania 
To May 27, 1902. 
Indefinitely 
do 
District of Columbia 
Virginia 
Indefinitely, i 
West Virginia 
Indefinitely 
do 
Michigan 
To 1910 . . 
To 1910, 
Indiana - 
Indefinitely. 
Illinois .... 
To May 10, 1906. 
Wisconsin 
To Sept. 1, 1903 
Indefinitely 
To Sept. 1, 1903. 
To Sept. 1, 1904. 
Minnesota . 
Indefinitely 
Nebraska 
To Nov. 1, 1903 .... 
Indefinitely 
Indefinitely. 
North Dakota 
To Sept. 1,1905. 
Montana 
Indefinitely 
Indefinitely. 
Wyoming 
Indefinitely 
To Sept. 1,1906. 
Colorado 
indefinitely 
Indefinitely 
South Carolina 
To Dec. 22, 1903. 
Georgia 1 ' 
Alaljama 
To Feb. 8 1904. 
Tennessee [ 
To Mar. 13, 19U2. 
Indefinitely 
Texas ; 
To May 27,1902. 
Oklahoma , i 
To Jan. 1, 1904. 
New Mexico ' 
To Mar. 14,1906. 
C^alifornia 
Indefinitely. 
1 
To Sept. 1,1906. 
Indefinitely. 
To 1902. 
rtah 
Indefinitely 
Idaho 
Washington . 
To 1903 
To Aug. 15. 1905. 2 
To Oct. 1,1905. 3 
Oregon 
1 To (Vt 1 ion.^ 
British Columlna 
Indefinitely 
' 
Indefinitely. 
Manitoba 
Indefinitely 
do 
Ontario 
To Oct 15 1905 
To Sept. 15, 1905. 
Indefinitely. 
New" Brunswick 
Nova Scotia 
Do. 
* Certain counties only. 
2 East of Cascades. 
3 Docs not include the ring-neck pheasant in some of the counties west of the Cascades, for which 
an open season has been provided. 
