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(2.) Strike out the word “ or ” where it occurs between the words nut hatch 
and “ creeper,” ia line 6, of section 1, and after the word “ creeper,” in the same 
line, insert “ yellow hammer or flicker, woodpecker, warbler or finch, or in any place 
to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any quail or Virginia partridge, 
between the first day of February and the first day of September, or at any other 
season, except on the premises of the person so catching, killing, injuring or pur- 
suing, or upon the public highway or commons.” 
(3 ) Strike out “ yellow hammer or flicker,” where those words occur in line 
9, of section 1. 
(4.) Strike out “ quail or Virginia partridge,” where those words occur inline 
5, of section 2. 
(5.) Strike out all after the word “prohibited,” in line 12, section 2, and all 
of lines 13, 14, 13 and 16. 
With these amendments, the committee recommend the engrossment and passage 
of the bill. 
W. B. WOODS, 
ABEL KRUM, 
W. B. McLUNG. 
The select committee, to whom was referred S. B. No. 12, by Mr Collins, for 
the protection of certain birds and game, has had the same under consideration, 
and submits the following considerations in support of the amendments reported 
by the committee, and recommends the passage of the bill. 
The General Assembly of 1857 passed an act for the protection of birds, which 
has secured the approval of the people of the State, and given great satisfaction to 
farmers and growers of fruit. The purpose of the bill under consideration is to 
extend the protection of the law to certain classes of birds not embraced by the 
provisions of the act of 1857. These are the wren, yellow bird, blue jay, creep- 
ers, and others of the smaller birds. To these the committee propose to add the 
woodpecker, warblers and finches. None of the birds above named are classed 
among gallinaceous or game birds, and he who destroys them does so either in 
wanton cruelty or from the mistaken idea that he is protecting his grain and his 
fruit. 
The destruction of small birds by the heartless sportsman, all will condemn. 
There is nothing which so much enhances the beauty of our groves and gardens, 
and affords so much innocent pleasure to the intelligent lover of nature, as the 
graceful forms, the gay plumage, the sprightly movements, and the cheerful notes 
of these tenants of the air. 
