CLOSE SEASONS. 
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County, Md.. the District of Columbia, North Carolina. Alabama, 
Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and the Indian Territory, and in Manitoba, 
Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. Mondays also constitute 
a close season for ducks in Ohio; Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 
for wild fowl in Carteret County, N. C, and Wednesdays and Satur- 
days for wild fowl in Currituck County. N. C. Similar exceptions 
are made for wild fowl in Anne Arundel. Cecil, Dorchester, and 
Harford counties, Md. , and in Connecticut for wild fowl at certain 
points on the Housatonic River and Long Island Sound. 
These special exceptions and the count}' laws of Alabama and Missis- 
sippi, of which no recent compilation is available, are not given in the fol- 
lowing table: but otherwise the table may be regarded as a practically 
complete resume of the regulations now in force. It is based primarily 
on the summary contained in 'Game Laws in Brief,' and has been 
corrected to August 1, 1901. The section relating to ^laryland county 
laws has been taken from the abstract prepared by the ^laryland Game 
and Fish Protective Association. That for North Carolina is based on 
the synopsis of the game laws published by the secretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture,^ supplemented by the Public Laws of 1901. 
That relating to Tennessee county laws has been compiled directly 
from the code of Ls96 and the session laws of 1897 and 1899. Finally, 
the section for Virginia has been compiled from the codes of 1887 and 
supplement of 1900. and the session laws of 1888-1900. 
The difficulty of securing absolute accuracy in a table of this kind 
is very great, and the absence in the laws of many States of ex|3ress 
legislation as to the inclusion or exclusion of the dates beginning and 
ending the seasons makes exactness almost an impossibility. 
Close seasons. 
[The close seasons include the first date, but not the last. To find the open seasons reverse the 
dates. No close season is prescril)ed by State laws for any game not mentioned in the li.^^t. 
Seasons which apply only to special counties are given in the middle column. See also tables at 
end of bulletin.] 
Kinds of game. 
Close seasons. 
Alabama Deer 
(1S99.I Squirrel (black, gray, or fox) 
Quail, partridge, grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, wild tur- 
key, woodcock. 
Dove 
Pheasant (Chinese. English. Mongolian). .5 years 
(59 counties excepted from operation of State law. but 
numerous county laws in force.) 
k rizona Male deer 
(1901. ) Female deer, fawn, elk, mountain sheep, mountain goat 
Antelope 
Quail, bobwhite, grouse, pheasant, snipe, rail, duck, goose. 
! brant. 
! Wild turkey 
Arkansas I Deer 
Quail or Virginia partridge 
I Pinnated grouse, prairie chicken 
I Wild turkey 
i Dove 
1 Bull. N. C. State Board Agriculture for Oct.. 1900. 
- This seems to be the intent of the law. but two lines have evidently been transposed in printmg. 
See Bull. No. 12. Biol. Survey, p. .56. 
Jan.l-.?ept.l. 
Feb.2-Julvl. 
Mar. 2-Nov. 15. 
Mar.l-Aug.1.5 
Until Feb.8.19(M 
Dec. 15-Nov. 15. 
At all times. 
Until Jan. 1. 1906. 
Mar. 1-Oct. 15. 
Dec.l.>-Nov.l.5. 
Mar. 1-Sept. 1. 
Mar.l-Oct.l. 
Dec.l-Oct.31. 
May 1-Sept. 1. 
At all times. 
