UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 Bureau of Biological Survey 



Proposed Regulations for the Protection of Migratory 



Birds* 



Washington, D. C, May 13, 1916. 



Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913, authorizing and directing 

 the Department of Agriculture to adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing 

 closed seasons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), regulations, copy of which is hereto 

 annexed, have been prepared, are hereby made public, and are hereby proposed for 

 adoption, after allowing a period of three months in which the same may be examined 

 and considered. The regulations, as finally adopted, will become effective on or after 

 August 16, 1916, whenever approved by the President. 



Public hearings on the proposed regulations will be held by the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey of this department whenever deemed necessary. Inquiries in reference thereto 

 should be addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture. 



D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY 



BIRDS 



Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913, authorizing and directing 

 the Department of Agriculture to adopt suitable regulations describing and fi.xing 

 closed seasons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), having due regard to zones of temper- 

 ature, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight, the Department of 

 Agriculture has prepared and hereby makes public, for examination and consideration 

 before final adoption, the following regulations: 



REGULATION 1. DEFINITIONS 



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be considered migratorj' 

 game birds: 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 



(6) Gruidae or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidae or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other rails. 



{d) Limicolae or shore birds, including avocets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, 

 oyster catchers, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, 

 willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(f j Columbidae 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, hum- 

 ming-birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, 

 robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, 

 whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely 

 or chiefly on insects. 



* Unfortunately this communication did not reach Bird-Lore in time for publication in 

 the May-June number. — Editor. 



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