Regulation 4. Five-year Closed Season on Certain Game 



Birds. 



A closed season shall continue until Sept. 1, 1918, on the 

 following migratory game birds: Band-tailed pigeons, little 

 brown, sand-hill, and whooping cranes, swans, curlew, and all 

 shore birds except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wil- 

 son or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and the lesser 

 yellow-legs. 



A closed season shall also continue until Sept. 1, 1918, on the 

 wood duck in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and 

 Wisconsin; on rail in California and Vermont; and on wood- 

 cock in Illinois and Missouri. 

 Regulation 5. Closed Season on Certain Navigable Rivers. 



A closed season shall continue between Jan. 1 and Oct 31, 

 both dates inclusive, of each year, on all migratory birds pass- 

 ing over or at rest on any of the waters of the main stream 

 of the following navigable rivers: The Mississippi river be- 

 tween New Orleans and Minneapolis; the Ohio river between 

 its mouth and Pittsburgh; and the Missouri river between its 

 mouth and Bismarck, N. D. ; and on the killing or capture of 

 any such birds on or over the shores of any of said rivers, or 

 at any point within the lim.its aforesaid, from any boat, raft, 

 or other device, floating or otherwise, in or on any such waters. 



Regulation 6. Zones. 



The following zones for the protection of migratory game 

 and insectivorous birds are hereby established: 



Zone No. 1 The breeding zone, comprising states lying 

 wholly or in part north of latitude 40 degrees and the Ohio 

 river and including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas- 

 sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, 

 Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington 

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