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FIBH AND GAME LAWS. 
Fines for Killing Female Deer, Spotted Fawns, 
Antelope and Mountain Sheep. 
§ 631c. Every person found guilty of a viola- 
tion of any of the provisions of Section 626e must 
be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor 
more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment in 
the county jail of the county in which the convic- 
tion shall be had, not less than fifty days nor more 
than one hundred and fifty days, or by both such 
fine or imprisonment. [Approved March 18, 1905.] 
Protection of Wild Birds, Other Than Game 
Birds, and Their Nests and Eggs. 
§ 637a. Every person in the State of California 
who shall at any time kill or catch, or have in his 
possession, living or dead, any wild bird other than 
a game bird, or who shall purchase, offer or expose 
for sale, transport or ship within or out of the 
State, any such wild bird after it has been killed 
or caught, except as permitted by this Act, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor. No part of the plumage, 
skin or body of any bird protected by this section 
shall be sold or had in possession for sale, irre- 
spective of whether said bird was captured or 
killed within or without the State. For the pur- 
poses of this Act the following only shall be consid- 
ered game birds : The anatidae commonly known 
as swans, geese, brant and river and sea ducks j the 
rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, mud hens 
and gallinules ; the limicolae, commonly known as 
shore birds, plover, surf birds, snipe, sandpipers, 
tattlers, and curlews ; the gallinje, commonly known 
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