(b) 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, wood- 

 cock and yellow legs. 



(e) Columbidae or pigeons, including doves and wild 

 pigeons. 



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be 

 considered migratory insectivorous birds: 



(f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cukoos, flycatchers, 

 grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks, 

 night hawks 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. 



Regulation 2. Closed Seasons at Night. 



A daily closed season on all migratory game and insec- 

 tivorous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. 



Regulation 3. Closed Season on Insectivorous Birds. 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall con- 

 tinue to Dec. 31, 1913, and each year thereafter shall begin 

 Jan. 1 and continue to Dec. 31, both dates inclusive, provided 

 that nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prevent 

 the issue of permits for collecting such birds for scientific 

 purposes in accordance with the laws and regulations in force 

 in the respective states and territories and the District of 

 Columbia; and provided further that the closed season on 

 reedbirds or ricebirds in Delaware, Maryland, and Distirct of 

 Columbia, Virginia and South Carolina shall begin Nov. 1 

 and end Aug. 31 next following, both dates inclusive. 



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