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Other migratory birds which, in their northern and southern migra- 

 tions, pass through or do not remain permanently the entire year 

 within the borders of any State or Territory shall hereafter be 

 deemed to be within the custody and protection of the Government 

 of the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary 

 to regulations hereinafter provided for. 



Sec. 2. That the Department of Agriculture is hereby 

 authorized to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous 

 section by prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due regard 

 to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of 

 migratory flight, thereby enabling the department to select and 

 designate suitable districts for different portions of the country 

 within which said closed seasons it shall not be lawful to shoot or 

 by any device kill or seize and capture migratory birds within the 

 protection of this law, and by declaring penalties by fine or 

 imprisonment, or both, for violations of such regulations. 



Sec. 3. That the Department of Agriculture, after the prep- 

 aration of said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, 

 and shall allow a period of three months in which said regulations 

 may be examined and considered before final adoption, permitting, 

 when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and after final 

 adoption to cause same to be engrossed and submitted to the 

 President of the United States for approval : Provided, however. 

 That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect or interfere 

 with the local laws of the vStates and Territories for the protection 

 of game localized within their borders, nor to prevent the States and 

 Territories from enacting laws and regulations to promote and 

 render efficient the regulations of the Department of Agriculture 

 provided under this statute. 



The editors have a letter from Dr. Ora W. Knight, long a 

 member of the Maine Ornithological Society, and a frequent con- 

 tributor to the Journal, in which he asks them to make for him 

 a statement regarding a recent publication called "The Timber- 

 doodle." 



