Chap. 299.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 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, et cetera, as further amended and re-
enacted as to subsection 2 of section 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, and as further amended and re-enacted by an
act approved March 11, 1908, as far as the same applies to the counties
of Brunswick, Sussex and Greenesville, and making carrying a gun
under certain conditions a misdemeanor.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That subsection
two of 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 Virginia,
in relation to the preservation of certain birds and animals, and to pre-
vent unlawful hunting, and to repeal certain sections of the Code, et
cetera, as further amended and re-enacted as to subsection two of section
two thousand and seventy-a by an act approved March fourteenth, nine-
teen 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, as further amended by an act approved March eleventh,
nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows, in so far as said acts apply to or affect the counties of Bruns-
wick and Greenesville:

§2070a. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill or capture
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, par-
tridges 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 anv
wild deer between February first and October first, or to track or hunt
them in the snow, or to kill or capture or buy or offer for sale or have
in possession any winter, wild, summer or wood duck between January
first and August first, or any rails, mudhens, gallinules, pl ver, surf birds,
snipe, except Wilson or English snipe, sandpipers, willcts, tattlers or
curlews between January first and July twentieth, and doves between
January fifteenth and August fifteenth, or robins between April first
and February fifteenth, or hares (or rabbits) or squirrels between Feb-
ruary first and November first: provided, this shall not restrict the kill-
ing of hares or squirrels by residents of this State upon their own land
at any time, nor shal! this interfere as to laws now governing the boards
of supervisors in the several counties in this State.

§2079. 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, rain crow, 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 they have 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 nothing
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, doves or night hawks (or bats). But nothing in this act
shall alter, affect or apply to any counties in this Commonwealth save
those of Brunswick and Greenesville.