Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-16
BOYS uhpEH SIXTEEN
 CANNOT HUNT These Who Daraaae Fences May Have Licenses RevosSed-other Features of Game Law Changes.

Copies of the statutes that were passed by the last legislature have reached here in small numbers. The ones for general distribution have not vet been received. One of the changes concerns the licensing of hunters. Formerly any person could secure license provided he was willing to pay the required fee There was no age limit. An amendment to the form% act, however. requires that person to secure a license must be over the hare or rabbit except with dog or fer hunting boy will disappear now.
 statute has also been passed pro- hibiting the use of snares or similar such snares or devices may be des- troyed by any person. Any person caught taking animals by snares .oI similar devices shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $50. Onehalf of the fine when collected goes to the informant and one-h haT to the town.
 Rabbit Hunting.
 The season for hunting wild hares and rabbits has been shortened three weeks. Formerly the closed season was from January 45 to September 90 but a new act makes 1t from Jan uary to october ' inclusive That shortens the open season to two months and twenty four days, The time when only ferret and dog may be used, which was heretofore from December I to January 15, has been moved ahead and reduced by about one week the new section reading, No person shall hunt or take any wild hare ar rabbit except with dog or fer ret, or both. between the twenty fourth day of November and the first of Jan uary." This shortens up the time that a gun may be used by about one week.
 An important act which ought to b. read by people who contemplate doing any hunting makes the penalty for letting down bars and not replac ing them and for injuring fences, the forfeiture of the license. This act reads. Any licensed hunter, who shall ligently injure any fence or let down any bar without replacing 1t, shall forfeit his hunters license and no such license shall be granted to him for period of two YeG/s thereafter
 Wild Birds.
 An amendment to Section BPS of the General Statutes concerning birds ought to be read and re-read by those who proposed to hunt and ought to be taught to some of the hunters who do not understand English thoroughly enough t9 gather the meaning. It is, No person shall kill or catch or have in his possession, living or dead any wild bird other than game bird; nor shall purchase, or offer or expose for
  been killed or caught No part of the plumage, skin, or body of any bird pro- tected by this section shall be sold or had in possession for sale For the purposes of this act the following only shall be considered game birds: The anatidae commonly known as swans, geese. brant and river and sea ducks: the rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots. mud-hens. and gallinules; the Emicolae. commonly known as shore birds, plovers. surf birds, snipe, wood cock sandpipers. tattefs and cHf1eWs; the gallinae, commonly known as the wild turkeys, grouse. prairie chickens, pheasants. cartridges and quails. No person shall take or needaessly des- troy the nest or the eggs of any wild bird. nor shall have such nest or eggs in his possession. English sparroWs. crows, great horned owls, starlin9s. redWinged and crow bIae4Ibirds. when in the act of destroying corn; and hawks, other than the fish hawk or osprey, are not included in birds pro- tected by this act
 Hunters who are tempted to des- troy song birds ought by becoming familiar with this section to avoid trouble.