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sparrow, the starling, and such other birds and animals as the Secretary of 
Ajjriculture may from time to time declare to be injurious to the interests of 
agriculture or horticulture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and ani- 
mals, shall, upon arrival at any port of the United States, be destroyed or 
returned at the expense of the owner. No person shall imiwrt into the United 
States or into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild animal or bird, 
except under special permit from the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall restrict the importation of natural-history speci- 
mens for museums or scientific collections, or of certain cage birds, such as 
domesticated canaries, parrots, or such other birds as the Secretary of Agri- 
culture may designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section.^ (Sec. 
241, act of March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1137.) 
Sec. 392. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver to any common 
carrier for transportation, or for any common carrier to transport from any 
State, Territory, or District of the United States to any other State, Territory, 
or District thereof, any foreign animals or birds the importation of which 
is prohibited, or the dead bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds,® 
where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped in violation of the laws 
of the State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed, or from 
which they were shipped : Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the 
transportation of any dead b^lrds or animals killed during the season when the 
same may be lawfully captured, and the export of which is not prohibited 
bv law in the State, Territory, or District in which the same are captured or 
killed. (Sec. 242, act of March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1137.) 
Sec. 393. All packages containing the dead bodies, or the plumage, or parts 
thereof, of game animals, or game or other wild birds, when shipped in inter- 
state or foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so that the 
name and address of the shipi)er and the nature of the contents may be readily 
ascertained on an inspection of the outside of such package. (Sec. 243, act of 
March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1137.) 
Sec. 394, For each evasion or violation of any provision of the three sections 
last . preceding the shipper shall be fined not more than $200; the consignee 
knowingly receiving such articles so shipped and transported in violation of 
said sections shall be fined not more than $200; and the carrier knowingly 
carrying or transporting the same in violation of said sections shall be fined 
not more than $200. (Sec. 244, act of March 4, 1909—35 Stat. 1138.) 
Sec. 395. That all dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any foreign game animals, 
or game or song birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
bodies, or parts thereof, of any wild game animals, or game or song birds 
transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consump- 
tion, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be 
subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory 
enacted in the exercise of its ix)lice powers, to the same extent and in the same 
manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or 
TeiTitory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced 
therein in original packages or otherwise. This act shall not prevent the im- 
portation, transportation, or sale of birds or bird plumage manufactured from 
the feathers of barnyard fowl. (Sec. 5, act of May 25, 1900—31 Stat. 188.) 
[Conservation, Title IG, U. S. Code] 
Sec. 701. That the duties and powers of the Department of Agriculture are 
hereby enlarged so as to include the preservation, distril)ution, introduction, and 
restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of Agriculture 
is herel)y authorized to adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out 
the purposes of this act and to purchase such game l)irds and other wild birds 
as may be required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various 
States and Territories. The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the 
restoration of .such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto 
where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the intro- 
■^ See joint regulations (S. R. A. — B. S. C9), effective November 21. 1927, governing the 
Importation of bobwhilo (itiail from Mexico, copies of which may be obtained free of charge 
from tlie U. S. Dcpartmcut of Agriculture, Washington, I>. C. 
8 Sw S(K?. 4 of the migratory bird treaty act, p. 10, whicli supei'Sedes this part of the 
Lacey Act relative to the interstate transportation of wild birds. 
