198 BIRD FRIENDS 



Regulation 1: Definitions 



For the purposes of these regulations the following 

 shall be considered migratory game birds : 



(a) Anatidse, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, 

 geese, and swans. 



(6) Gruidse, 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 yellow-legs. 



(e) Columbidse 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, nickers, 

 flycatchers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, kinglets, martins, 

 meadowlarks, nighthawks or bullbats, nuthatches, ori- 

 oles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, 

 thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whip-poor-wills, 

 woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds 

 which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 



Regulation 2: Closed season at night 



A daily closed season on all migratory game and in- 

 sectivorous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise. 



Regulation 3: Closed season on insectivorous birds 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall 

 continue throughout the year, except that the closed 

 season on reedbirds or ricebirds in New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, 



