ART. 99] WILD FOWL, BIRDS AND GAME. 609

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nothing in this section or the preceding sections contained shall
be so construed as to prevent any person or corporation from
having in his or its possession, at any time, any live birds or game
animals, for the purpose of stocking lands in this State.
Dickhaut v. State, 85 Md. 459.

1898, ch. 206.

15 F. No person shall, in this State, at any time shoot or in
any manner catch or kill, expose for sale, sell or buy, or have in
possession, alive or dead, any turkey buzzard, wren, sparrow, blue
bird, humming bird, bluejay, migratory or other thrush, wood
robin, red-breasted robin, martin, mockingbird, catbird, swallow,
oriole, red-bird, lark, indigo-bird, joe wink, pewitt, sapsucker,
whipporwill, gold finch, yellow-breasted chat, cedar bird, herring
gull or mackeral gull, or gull of any description, under a penalty
of not less than one ($1) dollar nor more than five ($5) dollars
for each such bird so shot, caught, killed, exposed for sale, sold,
bought or had in possession; and no person shall, under like
penalty, have in his or her possession, offer for sale or wear the
skins, plumage, wings or feathers of any of the birds, the catching
or killing of which is prohibited by this section; provided, how-
ever, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to
make it unlawful to shoot, catch or kill, or in any manner destroy
at any time, any hawk or other birds destructive to domestic
poultry, of any English sparrow, or crow or blackbird; provided
that this section shall not apply to St. Mary's county and Calvert
county; provided, that it shall be lawful to have mocking birds
or red birds, or other song birds in cages or stuffed specimens of
any said birds in educational institutions, or public or private
museums. .

Ibid.

15 G. No person shall, at any time, in this State shoot at or
kill any of the birds or game animals permitted to be shot or
killed under this sub-title, with any other kind of gun than such
as is habitually raised at arm's length from the shoulder, under a
penalty of not less than five ($5) dollars nor more than twenty-
five ($25) dollars for every such bird or game animal so shot at or
killed, and under a further penalty of not less than fifty ($50)
dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each