Chap. 185.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of section 2070a, and
section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved May 14,
1903, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter 95 of the Code of Virginia
in relation to the preservation of certain useful birds and animals, and to pre-
vent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code,” &e.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-section
two of section two thousand and seventy a, and section two thousand
and- seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act ap-
proved May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “an act to
amend and re-enact chapter ninety-five of the Code of Virginia in re-
lation to the nreservation of certain useful birds and animals and to
prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code,”
and so forth, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 207%0a. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill, or cap-
ture in any manner, or buy, offer for sale, or have in possession any wild
turkeys, pheasants, or grouse, quail, or partridges, or woodcock east of
the Blue Ridge mountains between February the first and November the
first, and west of the Blue Ridge mountains between December the thirty-
first and November the first, or to track or hunt any of them in snow, ex-
cept wild turkeys, or to trap or net them at any time, or to destroy their
nests, eggs, or young at any time, or to kill, chase, or capture, or buy,
offer for sale, or have in possession any wild deer between January the
first and October the first, or to track or hunt them in snow, or to kill
or capture, or buy, offer for sale, or have in possession, any winter wild
water fowl between April the first and October the fifteenth, or summer or
wood ducks between January the first and August the first, or any rails,
mud hens, gallinules, plovcrs, surf birds, snipe, except Wilson or Eng-
lish snipe, sand pipers, willits, tattlers, or curlews, between January the
first and July twentieth, or robins between April the first and February
fifteenth.

The possession of any of said game birds or game animals, or parts
thereof, protected by the laws of this State, during the season in which
it is unlawful to hunt, kill, chase, or capture the same, shall be prima
facie evidence of the guilt of the party in whose possession they are
found.

§ 2079. Concerning the prvtecticn of certain wild birds other than
game birds, their nests and cg2gs.—It shall be unlawful at any time to
kill or capture the turkey buzzard, or black buzzard, or to kill or ship
alive out of the’ State the mocking bird, or kill or capture the thrush,
gold finch, oriole, wren, rain crow, cardinal or red bird, wood robin,
blue bird, martin, starling, or any wild bird other than the game birds
herein named, or io destroy their nests or eggs, or to purchase or offer
for sale any such wild bird after it has been killed or camght, or any
part thereof, and the possession or sale, or offering for sale, in this
State of any bird so protected shall be prima facie evidence of guilt:
provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to
the English sparrow, owl, hawk, eagle, crow, crow black bird, rice bird,
Wilson or English snipe, robin-snipe.

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