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liable. Furthermore it provided that when dead bodies of 

 game-animals or game- or song-birds, or parts thereof, were 

 transported into any State, they should be subject to the laws 

 of that State in the same manner as if the animals or birds 

 had been produced in such State. 



The above law was designed to restrict the sale of game and 

 to stop the abominable slaughter of wild birds for their 

 feathers. The following act was passed for the purpose of 

 extending a larger degree of protection to migratory game 

 birds and to such of the insectivorous birds as had been looked 

 upon as game in certain sections. 



The Migratory Bird Act, approved March 4, 1913, contains 

 provisions as follows : 



All wild geese, wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, 

 woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and 

 insectivorous birds which in their northern and southern 

 migrations 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 pro- 

 vided therefor. 



The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and 

 directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the pre- 

 vious paragraph 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 differ- 

 ent portions of the country, and it shall be unlawful to shoot 

 or by any device kill or seize and capture migratory birds 

 within the protection of this law during said closed seasons, 

 and any person who shall violate any of the provisions or 

 regulations of this law for the protection of migratory birds 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more 



