﻿GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 19 



Regulation 1. Definitions. 



For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be considered migratory 

 game birds: 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese, and swans. 

 (6) Gruidse or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes. 



(c) Rallidas or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora and other rails. 



(d) Limicolee 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) Columbidae 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, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming 

 birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks, night hawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, 

 robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax- 

 wings, 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 insectivorous birds shall extend 

 from sunset to sunrise. 



Regulation 3. Closed season on insectivorous birds. 



A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall continue to December 31, 

 1913, and each year thereafter shall begin January 1 and continue to December 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 accord- 

 ance 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 reed- 

 birds or ricebirds in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and 

 South Carolina shall begin November 1 and end August 31 next following, both 

 dates inclusive. 



Regulation 4. Five-year Closed Seasons on Certain Game Birds. 



A closed season shall continue until September 1, 1918, on the following migratory 

 game birds: Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, swans, 

 curlew, and all shorebirds except the black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or 

 jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellow legs. 



A closed season shall also continue until September 1, 1918, on wood ducks in Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and Wisconsin; 

 on rails in California and Vermont; and on woodcock in Illinois and Missouri. 



Regulation 5. Closed Season on Certain Navigable Rivers. 



A closed season shall continue between January 1 and October 31, both dates inclu- 

 sive, of each year, on all migratory birds passing over or at rest on any of the waters 

 of the main streams of the following navigable rivers, to wit: The Mississippi River 

 between New Orleans, La., and Minneapolis, Minn.; the Ohio River between its 

 mouth and Pittsburgh, Pa. ; and the Missouri River between its mouth and Bismarck, 

 N. Dak.; and on the killing or capture of any of such birds on or over the shores of 

 any of said rivers, or at any point within the limits aforesaid, from any boat, raft, or 

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



