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THE OOLOGIST 



In four days a total of forty-four 

 trips were timed. The average for 

 each one of these trips was five 

 minutes and fifty-six seconds. 



The young birds left the nest on the 

 28th. 



I was greatly surprised to see a pair 

 of Carolina Wrens within fifty yards 

 of the spot where the Winter Wrens 

 had their nest. 



Albert D. McGrew. 



New Bird Law. 



The Ac of Congress of July 3, 1918, 

 known as "Migratory Bird Treaty 

 Act" vitally affects many, if not all, 

 of the subscribers to the Oologist. I 

 therefore submit a statement of the 

 law and the regulations of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture thereunder, so far 

 as they affect the collection and pos- 

 session of migratory birds and their 

 nests and eggs for scientific purposes. 

 If you see fit to do so, you may pub- 

 lish this latter in the Oologist. 



The Treaty with Great Britian, for 

 the enforcement of which the Migra- 

 tory Bird Treaty Act was enacted by 

 Congress, defines migratory birds as 

 follows : 



1. Migratory Game Birds: 



(a) Anatidae or waterfowl, includ- 

 ing brant, wild ducks, geese, and 

 swans. 



(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 shorebirds, includ- 

 ing avocets, curlew, dowitchers, god- 

 wits, knots, oystercatchers, phala- 

 ropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, 

 stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, 

 woodcock, and yellowlegs. 



(e) Columbidae or pigeons, includ- 

 ing doves and wild pigeons. 



2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds: 



Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, 

 cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, gros- 

 beaks, hummingbirds, kinglets, mar- 

 tins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull 

 bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, 

 shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, tit- 

 mice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax- 

 wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, 

 and wrens, and all other perching 

 birds which feed entirely or chiefly 

 on insects. 



3. Other Migratory N o n - g a m e 

 Birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, ful- 

 mars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, 

 gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, 

 petrels, puffins, shearwaters, and 

 terns. 



Section 2 of the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act prohibits the hunting, cap- 

 ture, killing, possession, sale, pur- 

 chase, shipment, transportation, or 

 carrying, by any means whatever, of 

 any migratory bird included in the 

 Treaty with Great Britian, or any nest 

 or egg of any migratory bird, unless 

 and except as permitted by the regu- 

 lations of the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Section 3 of the Act authorizes the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to adopt reg- 

 ulations permitting and governing 

 hunting, taking, capture, killing, pos- 

 session, sale, purchase, shipment, 

 transportation and carriage of migra- 

 tory birds and their nests, which reg- 

 ulations become effective when ap- 

 proved by the President. On July 13, 

 1918, the President approved and pro- 

 claimed the regulations adopted by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Regulation 9 authorizes the issuance 

 of permits to collect migratory birds 

 and their nests and eggs for scientific 

 purposes, under the following con- 

 ditions and restrictions: 



1. Application for a permit must 

 be addressed to the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture, Washington, D. C, and must 

 contain the name and address of the 

 applicant and the name of the State 



