198 BIRD FRIENDS 



Regulation 1: Definitions 



For the purposes of these regulations the following 

 shall be considered migratory game birds : — 



(a) Anatida;, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, 

 geese, and swans. 



(6) Gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, 

 and whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidag, or rails, including coots, gallinules, and 

 sora and other rails. 



{d) Limicolse, or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, 

 dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster-catchers, phalaropes, 

 plover, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf-birds, turnstones, 

 willet, woodcock, and yellow-legs. 



{e) Columbidse or pigeons, including doves and wild 

 pigeons. 



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall 

 be considered migratory insectivorous birds : — 



(/) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, 

 flycatchers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, kinglets, martins, 

 meadowlarks, nighthawks or bullbats, nuthatches, ori- 

 oles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, 

 thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whip-poor-wills, 

 woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds 

 which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 



Regulation 2: Closed season at night 



A daily closed season on all migratory game and in- 

 sectivorous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. 



Regulation 3: Closed season on insectivorous birds 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall 

 continue throughout the year, except that the closed 

 season on reedbirds or ricebirds in New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, 



