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493. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments. 
494. Birds and land and water fowls. 
549. Eggs of birds, fish, and insects: Prodded, hoicecer, That this shall not l^e held to 
include the eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not used for food, the importation of 
which is prohibited except specimens for scientific collections, nor fish roe pre- 
served for food purposes. 
561. Furs, undressed. 
562. Fur skins of all kinds not dressed in any manner and not si)ecially provided for 
in this Act. 
664. Skins of all kinds, raw (except sheepskins with the wool on), and hides not 
specially provided for in this Act. 
666. Specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, when imported for scien- 
tific public collections, and not for sale. 
Approved July 24, 1897. 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
30 Statutes at Larg-e, pp. 1012-1013 (as amended by 31 Stat. L., 1091). 
Chap. 417. An Act For the protection of birds, preservation of game, and for the prevention <»f it.s 
sale during certain closed seasons in the District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, [Sec. 1 as amended] That no person shall kill, expose for sale, 
or have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any partridge, otherwise quail, 
between the fifteenth day of March and the first day of November, under a penalty 
of five dollars for each partridge, otherwise quail, killed, exposed for sale, or had in 
his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in 
the workhouse for a i)eriod not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 
That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 
dead or alive, any woodcock between the first day of January and the first day of 
July, under a penalty of five dollars for each woodcock killed, exposed for sale, or 
had in his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be impris- 
one<l in the workhouse for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six 
months. 
That no person shall expose for sale or have in his or her possession, either dead 
or alive, any prairie chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, between the fifteenth day 
of ^Nlarch and the first day of September, under a penalty of five dollars for each 
prairie chicken, otherwise pinnated grouse, exposed for sale, or had in his or her 
possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in the work- 
house for a period not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 
That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 
dead or alive, any wild turkey or ruffed grouse, otherwise known as pheasant, between 
the twenty-sixth day of December and the first day of November, except the KngHsh, 
ring-neck, or other pheasants of foreign origin hatched and raised in farm poultry 
inclosures, under a penalty of five dollars for each wild turkey or ruffed grouse, other- 
wise known as pheasant, killed, exposed for sale, or had in his or her possession, 
either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in the workhouse for a 
period not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 
That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, either 
dead or alive, any squirrel or rabbit except the species known as the English rabbit, 
Belgian hare, between the first day of February and the first day of November, under 
a penalty of two dollars for each squirrel or rabbit killed, exposed for sale, or had in 
his or her possession, either dead or alive, and in default thereof to be imprisoned in 
the workhouse for a period not less than fifteen days nor more than three months. 
