FOREST AND STREAM 
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FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 21 
On the Trail of the Florida Manitee. 
By William Perry Brown 
Our Duck Shooting Expedition.By Sagwa 
The Moose Experiment in Newfoundland. 
By W. J. Carroll 
Trapshooting. 
Walter Winans, Big Game Hunter. 
By E. G. B. Fitzhamon 
A Mississippi Delta Quail Hunt.By R. H. McNair 
Baby Bruin Takes a Nap.By Mrs. W. N. Smith 
Editorial . 
For an Adirondack Panther Hunt.By Peter Flint 
Fur, Fin and Feather. 
Game Conditions in Yellowstone Park. 
How Foxes Aided a Game Warden. .By Henry Chase 
Live Notes From the Field. 
R. 1. BIRD LAWS AMENDED. 
Providence, R. I., April 24, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Rhode Island has just passed amendments to 
her bird laws making them conform to the Fed¬ 
eral Migratory Bird Law, copy of which I en¬ 
close. It is a remarkable fact that the bill went 
through the Senate with only three votes in op¬ 
position and none in the House! It proves that 
our people are alive to the necessity of preserving 
our wild life before it is exterminated. The 
changes in the law I will enumerate. Under sec¬ 
tion one line 6 was added “including grebes, loons, 
gulls, terns, etc., and down to line- 9 ending with 
jays.” These birds are shot by gunners who 
claim through ignorance that they are not pro¬ 
tected. The change makes more prominent birds 
that are protected. 
Section 4 is changed to include all game birds 
that come under the Federal law that may be 
killed legally and recites the closed season on 
such, and also prohibits sale at all time or pos¬ 
session during closed season. 
Section 5 defines the open season on game 
birds. 
Section 7 allows destruction of English starling 
by a person on his own land, and has removed 
crow blackbird from that section, thus protect¬ 
ing it. 
Section 8 recites 5-year closed season as under 
Federal law. 
Section 9 adds wild duck, wild swan, wild goose 
and rail to list of birds, which it is illegal to 
carry or send beyond limits of state. 
Section 10 removes provision allowing owner 
to snare on his land, thus prohibiting all snaring 
and adds Federal provision prohibiting killing of 
birds between sunset and sunrise. 
Section 17 and 18 are repealed. These two 
sections provided a bounty of $500 a year on 
hawks, owls and crows. I believe we are the last 
state to repeal this foolish law. There was not 
a murmur against the repeal either. 
Another amendment passed earlier in the ses¬ 
sion prohibits shooting wild fowl from motor 
boats anywhere in the state. The law formerly 
prohibited shooting of wild fowl from motor 
boats in Point Judith, Charlestown, and Quonoch- 
ontaug Pond. This amendment was stubbornly 
fought, but through the efforts of the Newport 
County Game Association, it was finally passed. 
Still another amendment to the bird law was 
placed on the statute. Warwich Neck was made 
a bird sanctuary for five years, commencing 
July 1, 1914. 
Section 33: “No person shall take, kill, destroy 
or pursue or in any manner molest any wild bird 
at any season of the year for a term of five 
years,” then defines boundaries and provides 
penalty of $25 for each offense. 
As now defined, all shooting is prohibited from 
January 1 to August 15, when season opens on 
rail and the five species of shore birds allowed 
under Federal regulation. “H.” 
RESTRICTIONS FOR IMPORTS OF DOGS. 
American breeders of foxhounds seeking in¬ 
formation as to how they may produce pedigreed 
dogs into the United Kingdom are given in¬ 
formation in this respect by American Consul 
General John L. Griffiths of London. Owing 
to the restrictions upon their importation, the 
opportunity for selling American foxhounds 
there is exceedingly limited. These restrictions, 
which are rigidly enforced, preclude the landing 
of any dog in Great Britain from a foreign 
country unless a license therefor has been pre¬ 
viously obtained from the British Board of Agri¬ 
culture. Dogs from foreign countries may not 
be shipped directly to any Irish port, but must 
first be landed at a port in England, the Channel 
Islands, or the Isle of Man. Restrictions are 
in force in those islands similar to those for the 
mainland. 
Upon landing, dogs must be kept in quarantine 
for six months at the expense of the owners, 
upon premises in the occupation, or under the 
control, of a veterinary surgeon, which shall 
have been previously approved in writing by 
the Board of Agriculture for that purpose. Dur- 
the six months the dog shall not be moved from 
the place of detention except to another place 
of detention, or to a vessel for exportation, and 
in either case only with a license granted by 
the board authorizing such movement. Any 
failure to observe all the regulations may render 
the offender liable to prosecution, and may cause 
the destruction of the dog. In evet^ case the 
permit to land a dog is required to be obtained 
prior to the shipment of the animal from the 
country of export. 
Moreover, British dog fanciers and breeders 
are entirely satisfied with their own breed of 
foxhounds, the Consul says, and it is doubtful 
whether they would be sufficiently interested to 
make an attempt to introduce a new breed worth 
while. Possibly an occasional breeder might be 
sufficiently interested to undertake the experiment 
provided the dog’s pedigree were satisfactorily 
registered at the British Kennel Club. 
