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REGULATION 3. CLOSED SEASON OX IXSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall con- 

 tinue thronghout each year, except that the closed season on 

 reedbirds or ricebirds in ^ew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, 

 Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and South 

 Carolina, shall connnence November 1 and end August 31, 

 next following, both dates inclusive: Provided, That nothing 

 in this or any other of these regulations shall be construed to 

 prevent the issue of permits for collecting birds for scientific 

 purposes in accordance with the laws and regulations in force 

 in the respective States and Territories and the District of 

 Columbia [as amended Aug. 31, 1914]. 



regulatiox 4. five-year closed seasons on certain 

 ga:me birds. 



A closed season shall continue until September 1, 1918, on 

 the following migratory game birds : Band-tailed pigeons, little 

 brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, swans, curlew, and all 

 shore birds except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson 

 or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs. 



A closed season shall also continue until September 1, 1918, 

 on wood ducks in Maine, Xew Hampshire, Vermont, ^lassa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Xew York, Xew Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, California, Oregon, 

 and Washington ; on rails in California and Vermont ; and on 

 woodcock in Illinois and Missouri. 



regulation 5. CLOSED SEASON OX CERTAIX XAVIGxiBLE 



RIVERS. 



On and after January 1, 1915, a closed season shall continue 

 between January 1 and December 31, both dates inclusive, of 

 each year, on all migratory birds passing over or at rest on any 

 of the waters of the main streams of the follo\viii«i- navigable 



