Chap. 176.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of section 2070a, and
section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted 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 birds and
animals, and to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of
the Code, etc., as further amended and re-enacted as to sub-section 2 of sec-
tion 2070a, by an act approved March 14, 1904, as further amended and re-
enacted as to section 2070a by an act approved March 15, 1906.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-section
two or section two thousand and seventy-a, and section two thousand
and seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled
an act to amend and re-enact chapter ninety-five of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the preservation of certain birds and animals, and
to prevent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code,
etcetera, as further amended and re-enacted as to sub-section two or sec-
tion two thousand and seventy-a, by an act approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and four, as further amended and re-enacted as to
section two thousand and seventy-a, by an act approved March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§2070a. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill or cap-
ture in any manner, or have in possession any wild turkeys, pheasants,
grouse, quail, partridges or woodcock east of the Blue Ridge mountains
between February first and November first, and west of the Blue Ridge
mountains between. December thirty-first and November first, or to
track or hunt any of them in the snow, or to trap or net them at any
time, or buy or offer for sale or sell at any time, any robins, grouse,
pheasants, quail or partridges or woodcock, 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 December first and
September first, or to track or hunt them in the snow, or to kill, or
capture, or buy, offer for sale, or have mm possession any winter, wild,
water fowl between May first and October fifteenth, or summer or wood
duck between January first and August first, or any rails, mudhens,
gallinules, plover, surf birds, snipe, except Wilson or English snipe,
sandpipers, willets, tattlers or curlews, between January first and July
twentieth, or robins between April first and February fifteenth, or hares
(or rabbits) between February first and November first; provided this
shall not restrict the killing of hares by residents of this State upon
their own land at any time, nor shall this interfere as to laws now gov:
erning the boards of supervisors in the several counties of this State.

§2079.° 3. Concerning the protection of certain wild birds other than
game birds, their nests and eggs.—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,
goldfinch, oriole, wren, raincrow, cardinal or red bird, wood robin, blue
bird, martin, or any wild bird other than the game birds herein named,
or to destroy their nests or eggs, or to purchase or offer for sale any
such wild birds after it has been killed or caught, or any part thereof,
and the possession or sale, or offering for sale in this State of any birds
so protected shall be prima facie evidence of guilt; provided, that noth-
ing herein contained shall be construed to apply to the English sparrow,
owl, hawk, eagle, crow, black bird, rice bird, Wilson or English snipe
or robin snipe, or doves.